Coherent electron spin manipulation in a dilute oriented ensemble of molecular nanomagnets: pulsed EPR on doped single crystals

Fabrizio Moro; Danielle Kaminski; Floriana Tuna; George F S Whitehead; Grigore A Timco; David Collison; Richard E P Winpenny; Arzhang Ardavan; Eric J L McInnes

doi:10.1039/c3cc46326e

Coherent electron spin manipulation in a dilute oriented ensemble of molecular nanomagnets: pulsed EPR on doped single crystals

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Jan 4;50(1):91-3. doi: 10.1039/c3cc46326e.

Authors

Fabrizio Moro¹, Danielle Kaminski, Floriana Tuna, George F S Whitehead, Grigore A Timco, David Collison, Richard E P Winpenny, Arzhang Ardavan, Eric J L McInnes

Affiliation

¹ School of Chemistry and Photon Science Institute, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. eric.mcinnes@manchester.ac.uk.

PMID: 24187686
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc46326e

Abstract

Doping a Cr7Zn molecular nanomagnet into a diamagnetic and isostructural host allows pulsed X-band EPR on single crystals, including relaxation and nutation experiments on the S = 3/2 ground state.