Recent spinterfacial studies targeted to spin manipulation in molecular spintronic devices**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 21673059), the Funds from Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant Nos. 2017YFA0206600 and 2016YFA0200700), the Instrument Development Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. YJKYYQ20170037), and the CAS Pioneer Hundred Talents Program.

Abstract

Molecular spintronics is an emerging field which evoked wide research attention since the first molecule-based spintronic device has been reported at 2002. Due to the active study over the last few years, it is found that the interfaces in spintronic device, so called spinterface, is of critical importance for many key issues in molecular spintronics, such as enhancing spin injection, lengthening spin transport distance, as well as manipulating spin signals in molecular spintronic devices. Here in this review, recent studies regarding spinterface in molecular devices, especially those impressive efforts devoted on spin manipulation, have been systematically summarized and discussed.