Recent studies have highlighted the importance of organic ligands in the field of molecular spintronics, via which delocalized electron-spin density can mediate magnetic coupling to otherwise localized 4f moments of lanthanide ions, which show tremendous potential for single-molecule device applications. To this end, highfield/ high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is employed to study a neutral terbium bis-phthalocyaninato metalorganic complex, [TbPc2]0, with the aim of understanding the magnetic interaction between the Ising-like moment of the lanthanide ion and the unpaired spin density on the coordinating organic radical ligand. Themeasurements were performed on a previously unknown[TbPc2]0 structural phase crystallizing in the Pnma space group. EPR measurements on powder samples of [TbPc2]0 reveal an anisotropic spectrum, which is attributed to the spin- 1 2 radical coupled weakly to the EPR-silent TbIII ion. Extensive double-axis rotation studies on a single crystal reveal two independent spin- 1 2 signals with differently oriented (albeit identical) uniaxial g-tensors, in complete agreement with x-ray structural studies that indicate two molecular orientations within the unit cell. The easy-axis nature of the radical EPR spectra thus reflects the coupling to the Ising-like TbIII moment. This is corroborated by studies of the isostructural [YPc2]0 analog (where Y is nonmagnetic yttrium), which gives a completely isotropic radical EPR signal. The experimental results for the terbium complex are well explained on the basis of an effective model that introduces a weak ferromagnetic Heisenberg coupling between an isotropic spin- 1/2 and an anisotropic spin-orbital moment, J = 6, that mimics the known, strong easy-axis Tb · · · Pc2 crystal-field interaction.

Radical-lanthanide ferromagnetic interaction in a TbIII bis-phthalocyaninato complex / Komijani, Dorsa; Ghirri, Alberto; Bonizzoni, Claudio; Klyatskaya, Svetlana; Moreno-Pineda, Eufemio; Ruben, Mario; Soncini, Alessandro; Affronte, Marco; Hill, Stephen. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS. - ISSN 2475-9953. - 2:2(2018), pp. 1-9. [10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.024405]

Radical-lanthanide ferromagnetic interaction in a TbIII bis-phthalocyaninato complex

Ghirri, Alberto;Bonizzoni, Claudio;Soncini, Alessandro;Affronte, Marco
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2018

Abstract

Recent studies have highlighted the importance of organic ligands in the field of molecular spintronics, via which delocalized electron-spin density can mediate magnetic coupling to otherwise localized 4f moments of lanthanide ions, which show tremendous potential for single-molecule device applications. To this end, highfield/ high-frequency electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy is employed to study a neutral terbium bis-phthalocyaninato metalorganic complex, [TbPc2]0, with the aim of understanding the magnetic interaction between the Ising-like moment of the lanthanide ion and the unpaired spin density on the coordinating organic radical ligand. Themeasurements were performed on a previously unknown[TbPc2]0 structural phase crystallizing in the Pnma space group. EPR measurements on powder samples of [TbPc2]0 reveal an anisotropic spectrum, which is attributed to the spin- 1 2 radical coupled weakly to the EPR-silent TbIII ion. Extensive double-axis rotation studies on a single crystal reveal two independent spin- 1 2 signals with differently oriented (albeit identical) uniaxial g-tensors, in complete agreement with x-ray structural studies that indicate two molecular orientations within the unit cell. The easy-axis nature of the radical EPR spectra thus reflects the coupling to the Ising-like TbIII moment. This is corroborated by studies of the isostructural [YPc2]0 analog (where Y is nonmagnetic yttrium), which gives a completely isotropic radical EPR signal. The experimental results for the terbium complex are well explained on the basis of an effective model that introduces a weak ferromagnetic Heisenberg coupling between an isotropic spin- 1/2 and an anisotropic spin-orbital moment, J = 6, that mimics the known, strong easy-axis Tb · · · Pc2 crystal-field interaction.
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Radical-lanthanide ferromagnetic interaction in a TbIII bis-phthalocyaninato complex / Komijani, Dorsa; Ghirri, Alberto; Bonizzoni, Claudio; Klyatskaya, Svetlana; Moreno-Pineda, Eufemio; Ruben, Mario; Soncini, Alessandro; Affronte, Marco; Hill, Stephen. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS. - ISSN 2475-9953. - 2:2(2018), pp. 1-9. [10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.024405]
Komijani, Dorsa; Ghirri, Alberto; Bonizzoni, Claudio; Klyatskaya, Svetlana; Moreno-Pineda, Eufemio; Ruben, Mario; Soncini, Alessandro; Affronte, Marco...espandi
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