Tadahiro Komeda

In molecular spintronics, the spin state of a molecule may be switched on and off by changing the molecular structure. Here, we switch on and off the molecular spin of a double-decker bis(phthalocyaninato)terbium(III) complex (TbPc₂) adsorbed on an Au(111) surface by applying an electric current via a scanning tunnelling microscope. The dI/dV curve of the tunnelling current recorded onto a TbPc₂ molecule shows a Kondo peak, the origin of which is an unpaired spin of a π-orbital of a phthalocyani

We have investigated the mechanism of the chemical reaction of the benzene molecule adsorbed on Cu(110) surface induced by the injection of tunneling electrons using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). With the dosing of tunneling electrons of the energy 2-5 eV from the STM tip to the molecule, we have detected the increase of the height of the benzene molecule by 40% in the STM image and the appearance of the vibration feature of the nu(C-H) mode in the inelastic tunneling spectroscopy (IETS)

We demonstrate that the lattice formation of an adsorbed molecule decouples the molecule-substrate interaction to change the Kondo resonance, which occurs due to interactions between conduction electrons and the molecule's unpaired spin. The double-decker bis(phthalocyaninato)terbium(III) complex, which is single-molecule magnet and forms a Kondo resonance on a Au(111) surface through an unpaired π-radical spin, is studied using scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS). In the STS sp

By using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we studied the heteroleptic double-decker complex TbNPcPc (NPc = naphthalocyaninato and Pc = phthalocyaninato), where two different planar ligands sandwich a Tb(III) ion and an unpaired π electron causes Kondo resonance upon adsorption on the Au(111) surface. Kondo resonance is a good conductance control mechanism originating from interactions between conduction electrons and a localized spin. Two types of adsorption geometries appear depending on wh

The spintronic properties of magnetic molecules have attracted significant scientific attention. Special emphasis has been placed on the qubit for quantum information processing. The single-molecule magnet bis(phthalocyaninato (Pc)) Tb(III) (TbPc₂) is one of the best examined cases in which the delocalized π-radical electron spin of the Pc ligand plays the key role in reading and intermediating the localized Tb spin qubits. We utilized the electron spin resonance (ESR) technique imple

Using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), we observed the bonding configuration of the metal-free phthalocyanine (H₂Pc) molecule adsorbed on the Au(111) surface. A local lattice formation started from a quasi-square lattice aligned to the close-packed directions of the Au(111) surface. Although we expected the lattice alignment to be equally distributed along the three crystallographically equivalent directions, the domain aligned normal to the ridge of the herringbon

We have measured high frequency signals in the tunneling current of scanning tunneling microscopy for a submonolayer oxide thin film on the Si(111)-7×7 surface. We demonstrate that the signal is related to the Larmor precession of the electron spin associated with a dangling bond. The detected precession frequency possesses a broad distribution (linewidth is comparable to that observed by conventional electron spin resonance) and a split near the maxima, both of which are attributed to the inhom

Octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS), self-assembled-monolayer (SAM) grown on SiO2 in the submonolayer region is investigated by atomic force microscope (AFM), which is further applied to SiO2 characterizations technique. OTS-SAM forms characteristic dendrite-shaped islands in its submonolayer region, whose shape and size significantly depend on the surface roughness of SiO2 formed at different temperatures in the range of 700–1100 °C. Moreover, OTS-SAM islands have practical usefulness as a self-patt