Spintronics, which aims at using the spin state of electrons to process information, is a promising route to supplement conventional electronics. The field is rapidly diversifying into Molecular Spintronics where magnetic molecules are the core of the devices and Organic Spintronics where spin currents are injected from ferromagnetic metals into organic materials like graphene. The electrical control of the molecular magnetism and the spin injection are however still limited and not well understood. The aim of 2DSPIN is to push Spintronics beyond the state-of-the-art by merging new magnetic 2D materials with magnetic molecules (0D) in hybrid mixed-dimensional (0D-2D, or 0D-1D) devices. The final goal is to achieve a full control over the spin of individual molecules by injecting spin polarized currents from all-2D devices.
The achievement of (a) enhanced spin injection and thereafter (b) the electrical control of spin of individual magnetic molecules could be ground-breaking for the development of new electronics and spintronics devices based on the emerging mixed dimensional van der Waals structures (2D material-molecules). These might reach
beyond the limits of current CMOS and silicon-based technologies. 2DSPIN also replaces conventional magnetic metals, like Ni or Co, as spin injectors. The understanding of 2D material/molecules magnetic hybrids will, in the short term, optimize existing spintronics prototypes. In the long term, it maycatalyse a new generation of high-performance, cost effective and low-power consuming electronic devices based on molecules. These devices have potential to be applied in a broad number of technological and societal fields like, high density data storages, microelectronics, (bio)sensors, quantum computing and medical technologies, with the associated impact in society.
