At the beginning of the year 2009, when this thesis work has been completed, the discovery
of Single Molecule Magnet behavior is little more than 15 years old. During these three …

Magnetic molecules are among the last to have joined the list of molecular materials, but
have already attracted great attention and are extremely promising candidates as nanoscale …

Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs) are one of the most attracting molecular materials having
non usual magnetic properties. They individually behave as bulk magnets 1 and represent …

The digitalization of our society has advanced at an almost frightening pace during the last
decades. The cause lies in the continuous progress in semiconductor technology and nano …

SMMs exhibit slow magnetization relaxation rates characteristic of nanodomain particles
whose origin is however on individual molecules. For this reason, they have attracted much …

The controlled deposition, characterization and manipulation of single molecule magnets
(SMMs) on surfaces is one of the crucial points to be addressed with regard to their possible …

In the field of molecular spintronics, the use of magnetic molecules for information
technology is a main target and the observation of magnetic hysteresis on individual …

A special class of molecules that behaves as tiny magnets have been discovered as the first
example of hybrid classical-quantum magnetic objects [1]. Single Molecule Magnets (SMMs) …

The field of molecular magnetism has a strong focus on the design and improvement of
magnetic molecules towards their potential application in molecular electronics; spintronics …

The research in depositing molecules that are interesting from a “magnetic” point of view has
been the main purpose of this thesis. The deposition through wet chemistry has been …