Spin based properties, applications, and devices are commonly related to magnetic effects and to magnetic materials. However, we found that chiral organic molecules act as spin filters for photoelectron transmission, in electron transfer and in electron transport.
The new effect, termed Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS), was found among others, in bio-molecules and in bio-systems. It has interesting implications for the production of new types of spintronics devices, and on electron transfer in biological systems. The base effect will be explained and various applications and implications will be discussed.
Professor Ron Naaman is in the Department of Chemical and Biological Physics at the Weizmann Institute, Israel. He obtained his PhD in 1978 from the Weizmann Institute and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and then at Harvard. He has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute since 1981. He studied reactions of van der Waals molecules in molecular beams, the structure of floppy molecular systems using the Coulomb Explosion Imaging method, sensors based on hybrid molecules-semiconductor devices, and the interaction of electrons with self-assembled monolayers of bio-molecules. Specifically, Naaman's group now concentrates on studying the chiral induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect and its applications. Professor Naaman has published about 280 papers and has 16 patents.
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