Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2011-12-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
13 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
Economical solar energy conversion to electricity can be boosted by the discovery of fundamentally new photovoltaic mechanism, and a suitable system to realize it with commonly available materials like iron (Fe) and nickel (Ni). This paper reports the observation of photovoltaic effect on a molecular spintronics device, composed of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and organometallic molecular clusters (OMCs). A prefabricated MTJ with exposed side edges, after enabling the bridging of OMC channels between its two ferromagnetic films, exhibited following phenomenon (i) dramatic increase in exchange coupling, (ii) 3-6 orders current suppression and (iii) photovoltaic effect. This paper focuses on the photovoltaic effect. Control experiments on isolated ferromagnetic films suggested that OMCs neither affected the magnetic properties nor produced any photovoltaic effect; photovoltaic effect was only observed on the ferromagnetic films serving as magnetic electrodes in a MTJ. Present paper invites further investigation of the similar photovoltaic effect on other combinations of MTJs and promising magnetic molecules, like single molecular magnets, organometallic clusters and porphyrins. This research can lead to mass producible and economical spin photovoltaic devices.
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