Chemical Modification toward Long Spin Lifetimes in Organic Conjugated Radicals.

Chemphyschem

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.

Published: November 2018

Organic semiconductors for spin-based devices require long spin relaxation times. Understanding their spin relaxation mechanisms is critical to organic spintronic devices and applications for quantum information processing. However, reports on the spin relaxation mechanisms of organic conjugated molecules are rare and the research methods are also limited. Herein, we study the molecular design and spin relaxation mechanisms by systematically varying the structure of a conjugated radical. We found that solid-state relaxation times of organic materials are largely different from that in solution state. We demonstrate that substitution of a lower gyromagnetic ratio nucleus (e. g. D, Cl) on the para-position of the aryl rings in the triphenylmethyl (TM) radical can significantly improve their coherence times (T ). Flexible thin films based on such radicals exhibit ultra-long spin-lattice relaxation times (T ) up to 35.6(6) μs and T up to 1.08(4) μs under ambient conditions, which are among the longest values in films. More importantly, using the TM radical derivative (5CM), we observed room-temperature quantum coherence and Rabi cycles in thin film for the first time, suggesting that organic conjugated radicals have great potentials for spin-based information processing.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201800742DOI Listing

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