Magnetic molecules on surfaces: SMMs and beyond

Kondo effects in magnetic molecules on metal surfaces

The Kondo effect is one of the intriguing phenomena arising from the interaction between magnetic molecules and metal surfaces. The Kondo singlet state resulting from the Kondo effect changes the magnetic state and the conductivity drastically. Therefore, the Kondo effect is a fundamental problem to solve toward application of the magnetic molecules to electronic and/or spintronic devices. To e...

Polygonal tiling of some surfaces containing fullerene molecules

A tiling of a surface is a decomposition of the surface into pieces, i.e. tiles, which cover it without gaps or overlaps. In this paper some special polygonal tiling of sphere, ellipsoid, cylinder, and torus as the most abundant shapes of fullerenes are investigated.

Organic molecules on inorganic surfaces.

Invited Speakers Controlling Molecules on Surfaces

The motion of one molecule on a surface can cause the subsequent motion of another molecule, and so on in a cascade of molecular motion. We call such an engineered motion a “molecule cascade”. A molecule cascade is similar to a row of toppling dominoes. It offers a unique chance to study the physical mechanism of hopping molecules as well as interesting applications for information transport an...

Diffusive spreading of chainlike molecules on surfaces.

T. Ala-Nissila,1,2,3 S. Herminghaus,4,5 T. Hjelt,1,2 and P. Leiderer5 1Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland 2Laboratory of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland 3Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 4Max-Planck Institute for Colloid and Interface Science, Rud...