Dynamical limits for the molecular switching in a photoexcited material revealed by X-ray diffraction

oleh: Alix Volte, Celine Mariette, Roman Bertoni, Marco Cammarata, Xu Dong, Elzbieta Trzop, Herve Cailleau, Eric Collet, Matteo Levantino, Michael Wulff, Jacek Kubicki, Feng-Lei Yang, Marie-Laure Boillot, Benoit Corraze, Laurentiu Stoleriu, Cristian Enachescu, Maciej Lorenc

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01

Deskripsi

Ultrafast methods have the ability to transiently decouple transitions between subsystems that evolve simultaneously at thermal equilibrium. Here, time-resolved X-ray diffraction reveals a time delay between volumetric and spin-state switching in a spin-crossover compound.