DEIMOS beamline
ASSOCIATED PUBLICATION
Magnetic cooling at a single molecule level:
a spectroscopic investigation of isolated
molecules on a surface
V. Corradini, A. Ghirri, A. Candini, R. Biagi,
U. del Pennino, G. Dotti, E. Otero,
F. Choueikani, R. J. Blagg, E. L. J. McInnes
and M. Affronte*
Advanced Materials 25(20) (2013) 2816
*S3 Centre, Institute Nanoscience - CNR,
via G. Campi 213/A, 41125 Modena, Italy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
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A sub-monolayer distribution of isolated molecular Fe
14
(bta)
6
nanomagnets
is deposited intact
on a Au(111) surface and investigated by X-ray magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy. The entropy
variation with respect to the applied magnetic field is extracted from the magnetization curves
and evidences high magnetocaloric values at the single molecule level.
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HIGHLIGHTS
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