Switching Dielectric Constant Near Room Temperature in a Molecular Crystal

Switching Dielectric Constant Near Room Temperature in a Molecular Crystal

The organic salt bis(2-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride shows a sharp switching of its dielectric constant at 320 K. The switching property originates from the dynamic changes of the (2-chloroethyl)ammonium cation between frozen and motional states, corresponding to a structural phase transition.

Temperature Tunability of Dielectric/ Liquid Crystal / Dielectric Photonic Crystal Structures

Recently, photonic crystals doped with liquid crystal (LC) material havegained much research interest. In this article new ternary one-dimensional photoniccrystal introduced and studied. The liquid crystal layer of 5CB and 5PCH is sandwichedby two dielectric layers. For the first time, we use four structures SiO2/UCF35/CaF2,SiO2/5CB/CaF2, NFK51/UCF35/NPSK53 and NFK51/5CB/NPSK53. The effect ofte...

Room temperature switching of a neutral molecular iron(II) complex.

Abrupt room temperature switching (T(c) = 295 K with a 5 K hysteresis) was achieved in a neutral Fe(II) complex based on a 2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-6-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)pyridine ligand. Structural characterization and spin crossover study (via SQUID magnetometry, photoexcitation and X-ray absorption spectroscopy) in the solid state are described.

Switching Molecular Orientation of Individual Fullerene at Room Temperature

Reversible molecular switches with molecular orientation as the information carrier have been achieved on individual fullerene molecules adsorbed on Si (111) surface at room temperature. Scanning tunneling microscopy imaging directly demonstrates that the orientation of individual fullerene with an adsorption geometry of 5-6 bond is rotated by integral times as 30 degree after a pulse bias is a...

Field-induced giant static dielectric constant in nano-particle aggregates at room temperature