CHARGE TRANSFER IN MOLECULAR CRYSTALS

Charge Transfer in Molecular Crystals.

Frenkel versus charge-transfer exciton dispersion in molecular crystals

Pierluigi Cudazzo,1,2,* Matteo Gatti,1,2,3,4 Angel Rubio,1,2,5 and Francesco Sottile2,3 1Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group, Departamento Fı́sica de Materiales, Universidad del Paı́s Vasco, Centro de Fı́sica de Materiales CSIC-UPV/EHU-MPC and DIPC, Avenida Tolosa 72, E-20018 San Sebastián, Spain 2European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) 3Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés, École Polytechnique, CNR...

Quantum ferroelectricity in charge-transfer complex crystals

Quantum phase transition achieved by fine tuning the continuous phase transition down to zero kelvin is a challenge for solid state science. Critical phenomena distinct from the effects of thermal fluctuations can materialize when the electronic, structural or magnetic long-range order is perturbed by quantum fluctuations between degenerate ground states. Here we have developed chemically pure ...

Room Temperature Multiferroicity of Charge Transfer Crystals.

Room temperature multiferroics has been a frontier research field by manipulating spin-driven ferroelectricity or charge-order-driven magnetism. Charge-transfer crystals based on electron donor and acceptor assembly, exhibiting simultaneous spin ordering, are drawing significant interests for the development of all-organic magnetoelectric multiferroics. Here, we report that a remarkable anisotr...

Proton transfer in imidazole-based molecular crystals.

Heterocycles' aggregates show rather good proton conductivity. In particular, condensed structures formed by imidazole rings that are held together by polymeric chains have attracted some interest as possible candidate materials for fuel cell membranes. However, the details of the proton diffusion process could not be resolved by means of experimental measurements because of the fast rearrangem...