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Article Dans Une Revue Advanced Functional Materials Année : 2024

Temporal Separation between Lattice Dynamics and Electronic Spin‐State Switching in Spin‐Crossover Thin Films Evidenced by Time‐Resolved X‐Ray Diffraction

Ritwika Mandal
Alix Volte
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Yifeng Jiang
Elzbieta Trzop
Yuteng Zhang
Thomas Pezeril
Hervé Cailleau
Gábor Molnár
Maciej Lorenc

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Spin‐crossover (SCO) complexes have drawn significant attention for the possibility to photoswitch their electronic spin state on a sub‐picosecond timescale at the molecular level. However, the multi‐step mechanism of laser‐pulse‐induced switching in solid state is not yet fully understood. Here, time‐resolved synchrotron X‐ray diffraction is used to follow the dynamics of the crystal lattice in response to a picosecond laser excitation in nanometric thin films of the SCO complex [Fe(HB(1,2,4‐triazol‐1‐yl)3)2]. The observed structural dynamics unambiguously reveal a lattice expansion on the 100 picosecond timescale, which is temporally decoupled both from the ultrafast molecular photoswitching process (occurring within 100 fs) and from the delayed, thermo‐elastic (Arrhenius‐driven) conversion (taking place ≈10 ns). These time‐separated dynamics are also manifested by the observation of damped acoustic oscillations in the time evolution of the lattice volume, whereas no such oscillations are observed in the electronic spin‐state dynamics. Overall, these results suggest the existence of a universal behavior whereby the intramolecular energy barrier between low‐spin and high‐spin states acts as an intrinsic dynamical bottleneck in the out‐of‐equilibrium spin‐state switching dynamics of SCO materials.
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hal-04649865 , version 1 (22-07-2024)

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Karl Ridier, Roman Bertoni, Ritwika Mandal, Alix Volte, Yifeng Jiang, et al.. Temporal Separation between Lattice Dynamics and Electronic Spin‐State Switching in Spin‐Crossover Thin Films Evidenced by Time‐Resolved X‐Ray Diffraction. Advanced Functional Materials, 2024, pp.2403585. ⟨10.1002/adfm.202403585⟩. ⟨hal-04649865⟩
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