Nature:
Molecule Changes Magnetism and Conductance
By
Electricity, Researchers Switch the Magnetic State and Electric Resistance of a
Single Molecule on and off/Blueprint for Novel, Compact Storage Media
One bit of
digital information stored on a hard disk currently consists of about 3 million
magnetic atoms. Researchers from Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, and Japan have now
developed a mag-netic memory with one bit per molecule. By an electric pulse,
the metal-organic molecule can be switched reliably between a conductive,
magnetic state and a low-conductive, non-magnetic state. This novel correlation
for molecules is now reported in the Nature Communications journal. (doi:
10.1038/ncomms1940)
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