Project Revision
Workpackage 3 Revised
The milestone and expected result for month 24 within this workpackage consists in
- the improvement of the techniques already used by CSIC-ICMAB for thepositioning of individual single molecule magnets well ordered on a surface, as well as
- the development of new methodologies.
Such a knowledge results extremely important for the correct accomplishment of WP1, to be done in collaboration with NPL.
The workpackage will be adressed as follows:
- The methodology to address individual single-molecule magnets onto a thin film surface will be improved.
- The deposition of individual Mn12 clusters on a surface without a polymeric matrix will be further explored either by improving the spin-coating techniques or by using new soft lithographic techniques, such as the so-called “wetting-dewetting” technique. Once the molecules are deposited on the surface, the feasibility to slide along the surface will be also checked.
- Development of the methodology to deposit nanoparticles of Mn12molecules ranging from a micron to a few hundred nanometers within alithographically patterned micro-SQUID (for the obtaining of such nanoparticles see WP2).
- The samples so far obtained will be given to NPL to measure local magnetic moments. To consolidate the collaboration and ensure a fluent communication between the chemist and physicist groups, one or two members from the CSIC-ICMAB group are planning to visit the NPL lab during the experiments.
- Once the feasibility of micro-SQUIDs to measure nanoparticles has been tested in WP1, single Mn12 clusters will be deposited, with the previously developed techniques, onto a lithographically patterned micro-SQUID, and their magnetic properties will be explored. This work will be done following the guidelines previously given for the collaboration between UB, NPL and CSIC-ICMAB.
