Scientists introduce magnetic data storage of the future
Their findings were published recently in the Angewandte Chemie journal. Summarising the project objectives on CORDIS, she added: The potential is huge for SMM systems that would demonstrate magnetic field and light-driven changes in both their optical and magnetic properties because they could reproduce on a single molecule the same type of magneto-optical effects which are used for some current data storage technologies. For instance, single atoms and SMMs could be cooled with liquid helium at a temperature of -269 °C. This is important for their potential use in the magnetic storage of information, according to the team. The PhotoSMM (Single Molecule Magnets light-switching with photochromic ligands) project will demonstrate that a light input can induce a modification of the magnetic and optical properties of monometallic or bimetallic SMMs.