Project IMPRESS is concerned with the electron spin states within individual carbon nanotube peapods. Through a variety of characterization techniques, and pioneering synthetic chemistry, we will develop the ability to engineer spin-spin interactions along a one-dimensional spin chain. Such a structure would have highly remarkable properties. It would be capable of rapidly transferring the spin states, i.e. the information, along the chain purely by virtue of the spin-spin interactions without any externally applied voltage or power dissipation. Thus a molecular device of this kind could constitute a key building block for any technology based on information processing with electron spins.
Project Leader
- George Briggs
Oxford University, Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Department of Materials, Oxford, UK
Principal Investigators
- Laszlo Forro
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Physics of Complex Matter, Lausanne, CH - Herwig Peterlik
Universität Wien, Institut für Materialphysik, Wien, AT
