Download or read book Local Investigation of Single Magnetic Molecules with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy written by Chen, Jinjie and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We worked on different magnetic molecules containing 3d and 4f magnetic centers. Their growth on metallic surfaces, topographies, spin states, magnetic properties and electron transport were locally investigated by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at temperatures down to 30mK. The main achievement of this dissertation reveals the abrupt switching of crystal fields during formation of molecular contacts.