Single-Molecule Magnets DyM N@C and Dy MN@C (M=Sc, Lu): The Impact of Diamagnetic Metals on Dy Magnetic Anisotropy, Dy⋅⋅⋅Dy Coupling, and Mixing of Molecular and Lattice Vibrations

Overview

Journal Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2019 Nov 28

PMID 31774196

Citations 6

Authors

Lukas Spree

Christin Schlesier

Aram Kostanyan

Rasmus Westerstrom

Thomas Greber

Bernd Buchner

Stanislav M Avdoshenko

Alexey A Popov

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Abstract

The substitution of scandium in fullerene single-molecule magnets (SMMs) DySc N@C and Dy ScN@C by lutetium has been studied to explore the influence of the diamagnetic metal on the SMM performance of dysprosium nitride clusterfullerenes. The use of lutetium led to an improved SMM performance of DyLu N@C , which shows a higher blocking temperature of magnetization (T =9.5 K), longer relaxation times, and broader hysteresis than DySc N@C (T =6.9 K). At the same time, Dy LuN@C was found to have a similar blocking temperature of magnetization to Dy ScN@C (T =8 K), but substantially different interactions between the magnetic moments of the dysprosium ions in the Dy MN clusters. Surprisingly, although the intramolecular dipolar interactions in Dy LuN@C and Dy ScN@C are of similar strength, the exchange interactions in Dy LuN@C are close to zero. Analysis of the low-frequency molecular and lattice vibrations showed strong mixing of the lattice modes and endohedral cluster librations in k-space. This mixing simplifies the spin-lattice relaxation by conserving the momentum during the spin flip and helping to distribute the moment and energy further into the lattice.

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