Maruccio G.(Yürütücü), Arifioğlu T.
6. Çerçeve Programı Projesi, 2006 - 2010
The SpiDME (Spintronic Devices for Molecular Electronics) project aims
both at the understanding of the interaction between the electron spin
and its solid-state environment and at the fabrication of a new
generation of molecular spin devices, which exploit the spin degree of
freedom to store, carry and manipulate information.
Spin and
molecular electronics will be merged in the present project, with a view
to expand the frontiers of current knowledge and deepen our fundamental
understanding of spin transport phenomena at the molecular level. This
would also pave the way to the fabrication of conceptually new devices
at the interface between molecular electronics and spintronics,
exploiting spin transport in molecules and molecular magnets.
Our
approach can be considered as a potential "step forward" in the
direction of future nanoelectronics. It has a clear advantage with
respect to classical 'scaling down' solutions for spintronics: it builds
electronic elements by using elementary functional units (molecules or
nanometer scale clusters) that can be, to a large extent, engineered to
match the requirements of the particular spin-application.