Multipurpose Magnetic Organic Hybrid Devices

Abstract

The merging of spintronics with organic RAM technology is demonstrated experimentally for the first time with the multipurpose device reported here. An unconventional configuration sandwiching a π-conjugated organic semiconductor between two ferromagnetic electrodes (see figure) allows two different, unrelated physical effects to be superimposed. The novel single-cell device shows both magnetoresistance and nonvolatile electric memory.