Two-dimensional metal-organic coordination networks of Mn-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane assembled on Cu(100): Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties

Tzu-Chun Tseng¹, Chensheng Lin^2,*, Xingqiang Shi², Steven L. Tait^1,3,†,‡, Xiong Liu¹, Ulrich Starke¹, Nian Lin^1,4, Ruiqin Zhang², Christian Minot^2,5, M. A. Van Hove^2,‡,§, Jorge I. Cerdá⁶, and Klaus Kern^1,7
1Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
²Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
³Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
⁴Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
⁵Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, CNRS UMR 7616, Case 137, 4 Place Jussieu, Paris F-75252 Cedex, France
⁶Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, ICMM–CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
⁷École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

^*Present address: Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, China.

^†tait@indiana.edu

^‡Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

^§vanhove@cityu.edu.hk