Bassi, Nicolo and Wilhelm, Jan and Krane, Nils and Xiang, Feifei and Cmelova, Patricia and Turco, Elia and Gargiani, Pierluigi and Pignedoli, Carlo A. and Juricek, Michal and Fasel, Roman and Korytar, Richard and Ruffieux, Pascal (2025) Proximity-Driven Magnetic Coupling between an Open-Shell Nanographene and a Rare-Earth Surface Alloy. ACS NANO, 19 (38). pp. 33868-33878. ISSN 1936-0851, 1936-086X
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Open-shell nanographenes have attracted significant attention due to their structurally tunable spin ground state. While most characterization has been conducted on weakly interacting substrates such as noble metals, the influence of magnetic surfaces remains largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate how TbAu2, a rare-earth-element-based surface alloy, affects the magnetic properties of phenalenyl (or [2]triangulene (2T)), the smallest spin-1/2 nanographene. Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) measurements reveal a striking contrast: while 2T on Au(111) exhibits a zero-bias Kondo resonance-a hallmark of a spin-1/2 impurity screened by the conduction electrons of the underlying metal-deposition on TbAu2 induces a symmetric splitting of this feature by approximately 20 mV. This opening is large compared to the few meV splitting induced by externally applied magnetic fields. We attribute this splitting to a strong proximity-induced interaction with the ferromagnetic out-of-plane magnetization of TbAu2. Moreover, our combined experimental and many-body model analysis demonstrates that this interaction is spatially modulated, following the periodicity of the TbAu2 surface superstructure. These findings highlight that TbAu2 serves as a viable platform for stabilizing and characterizing the magnetic properties of spin-1/2 nanographenes and for studying the interactions of more complex pi-magnetic materials with magnetic substrates.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | open-shell molecules; spin; phenalenyl; rare-earth surface; proximity interaction; scanningtunneling microscopy; X-ray magnetic circular dichroism |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Divisions: | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics Regensburg Center for UltrafastNanoscopy (RUN) |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2026 05:27 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2026 05:27 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/66706 |
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