Molecular Spintronics

TL;DR

Molecular spintronics is an emerging research area that explores spin-based phenomena in molecular systems, highlighting its history, key achievements, current status, and theoretical foundations.

Contribution

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of molecular spintronics, including its historical development, significant milestones, and theoretical approaches, serving as a foundational reference.

Findings

Historical overview of molecular spintronics

Summary of key achievements in the field

Introduction to theoretical frameworks

Abstract

Molecular spintronics is recognized to as an attractive new research direction in a field of spintronics, following to metallic spintronics and inorganic semiconductor spintronics, and attracts many people in recent decades. The purpose of this manuscript is to describe the history of molecular spintronics by introducing important achievements and to show the current status of this field. In addition, the authors briefly introduce several theories for implementing studies in molecular spintronics.