March 17, 2011 (Thursday)
11 AM
Room 120A Sumwalt

Ron Naaman
Dept. of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel

New electronic and magnetic properties are induced by the adsorption of
closed packed organized organic monolayers on solid substrates. In
layers made from chiral molecules, unexpectedly large electronic
dichroism is observed, which manifests itself as spin specific electron
transmission. The adsorbed layers may also affect the electronic
properties of the underlying substrate and change its conduction and
magnetic behavior. These effects and their origin will be discussed.