Femtosecond photoswitching dynamics and microsecond thermal conversion driven by laser heating in FeIII spin-crossover solids

Femtosecond spin-state photo-switching dynamics in an FeIII spin crossover solid accompanied by coherent structural vibrations

Robust Room Temperature Hysteresis in an FeIII Spin Crossover Metallomesogen

The high temperature magnetic and structural properties of an amphiphilic iron(III) spin crossover complex are reported. Thermal cycling reveals a scan rate-dependent 20 K thermal hysteresis in the mT vs T data close to room temperature. A fast scan rate is essential for the hysteresis but it is robust and reproducible after multiple thermal cycles. Differential scanning calorimetry and cross ...

Spin Dynamics in Disordered Solids

Main specifics of the theory of spin dynamics in disordered solids results from the fact, that calculation of observable values must start from the solution of equation of motion, and then they should be averaged over random distribution of spins in the sample. Nominally any problem in statistical physics looks analogously, but content of existing text books is formed by much more simple bypass...

Cooperative elastic switching vs. laser heating in [Fe(phen)2(NCS)2] spin-crossover crystals excited by a laser pulse.

Spin-crossover crystals show multi-step responses to femtosecond light excitation. The local molecular photo-switching from low to high spin states occurs on sub-picosecond timescale. It is followed by additional conversion due to elastic (ns) and thermal (μs) effects. In [Fe(phen)2(NCS)2] crystals discussed herein, the thermal switching can be made unobtrusive for the investigation of cooperat...

Femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy at a hard X-ray free electron laser: application to spin crossover dynamics.

X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) deliver short (<100 fs) and intense (∼10(12) photons) pulses of hard X-rays, making them excellent sources for time-resolved studies. Here we show that, despite the inherent instabilities of current (SASE based) XFELs, they can be used for measuring high-quality X-ray absorption data and we report femtosecond time-resolved X-ray absorption near-edge spectrosco...