Nanowerk  October 15, 2021 Electrical control of spins at the nanoscale offers significant architectural advantages in spintronics. However, the electric-field sensitivities reported so far are rather weak. An international team of researchers (UK, Spain) showed that one path is to identify an energy scale in the spin spectrum that is associated with a structural degree of freedom with a substantial electrical polarizability. They studied an example of a molecular nanomagnet in which a small structural distortion establishes clock transitions in the spin spectrum; the fact that this distortion is associated with an electric dipole allowed them to control the clock-transition energy […]