Yujeong Bae

The desire to control and measure individual quantum systems such as atoms and ions in a vacuum has led to significant scientific and engineering developments in the past decades that form the basis of today's quantum information science. Single atoms and molecules on surfaces, on the other hand, are heavily investigated by physicists, chemists, and material scientists in search of novel electronic and magnetic functionalities. These two paths crossed in 2015 when it was first clearly demonstrat

Manipulation of spin states at the single-atom scale underlies spin-based quantum information processing and spintronic devices. These applications require protection of the spin states against quantum decoherence due to interactions with the environment. While a single spin is easily disrupted, a coupled-spin system can resist decoherence by using a subspace of states that is immune to magnetic field fluctuations. Here, we engineered the magnetic interactions between the electron spins of two s

Recent advances in improving the spectroscopic energy resolution in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) have been achieved by integrating electron spin resonance (ESR) with STM. Here, we demonstrate the design and performance of a homebuilt STM capable of ESR at temperatures ranging from 1 to 10 K. The STM is incorporated with a homebuilt Joule-Thomson refrigerator and a two-axis vector magnet. Our STM design allows for the deposition of atoms and molecules directly into the cold STM, eliminatin

Hyperfine interactions have been widely used in material science, organic chemistry, and structural biology as a sensitive probe to local chemical environments. However, traditional ensemble measurements of hyperfine interactions average over a macroscopic number of spins with different geometrical locations and nuclear isotopes. Here, we use a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) combined with electron spin resonance (ESR) to measure hyperfine spectra of hydrogenated-Ti on MgO/Ag(100) at low-sym

Controlling spin-polarized currents at the nanoscale is of immense importance for high-density magnetic data storage and spin-based logic devices. As electronic devices are miniaturized to the ultimate limit of individual atoms and molecules, electronic transport is strongly influenced by the properties of the individual spin centers and their magnetic interactions. In this work, we demonstrate the precise control and detection of spin-polarized currents through two coupled spin centers at a tun

Precise description of the interaction between molecular oxygen and metal surfaces is one of the most challenging topics in quantum chemistry. In this work, we use low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to identify and characterize an adsorption state of molecular oxygen that coordinates to three Ag atoms (μ₃) on Ag(100). Surprisingly, μ₃-O₂ cannot be identified as a stable configuration with generalized gradient approximation (GGA)-level density fun

Fe(100)/MgO(100)/CuPc/Co 자성터널접합 소자의 온도에 따른 전압-전류 특성 변화를 관찰하였다. 화학적 열적 안정성이 비교적 우수한 Cu-Phthalocyanine(CuPc)의 유기박막을 에피성장된 2 nm MgO(100) 박막 위에 2~10 nm 두께로 적층하여 두 강자성 Fe(100)와 Co 전극 사이의 무기-유기 복합 절연격벽으로 이용하였다. 저온 77 K에서 측정된 거대자기저항현상은 CuPc의 두께가 증가함에 따라 급격히 감소하여 10 nm의 CuPc 두께의 경우 전하축적에 의한 쌍안정 스위칭 거동(bistable switching behavior)이 관찰되었다. 이 스위칭 거동은 약 240 K의 온도에 이르면서 점차 소멸되어 상온에서는 정류기와 유사한 비대칭적 전압-전류 특성을 보였다. 이 연구에서 우리는 MgO/CuPc 층상구조에대해 유기물 스핀소자의 절연격벽뿐만 아니라 Polymer Random Access Memory(PoRAM)를 위한 응용 가능성에