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Spintronics goes plastic

Nature Materials volume 6, pages 803–804 (2007)Cite this article

Spin-related phenomena are usually considered exclusively in relation to inorganic materials. A series of pioneering experiments challenges this picture and demonstrates that the integration of molecular and spin electronics is also possible.

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Figure 1: Different experimental protocols for studying spin dynamics in semiconductors.

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  1. *1st International Workshop on Spintronic Effects in Organic Semiconductors (SpinOS07), Bologna, Italy, 9–11 September 2007.

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