| Issue |
EPL
Volume 77, Number 3, February 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 30007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/77/30007 | |
| Published online | 01 February 2007 | |
Light-induced phase separation in the 
spin-crossover single crystal
1
Groupe d'Etudes de la Matière Condensée (ex-LMOV), CNRS-Université de Versailles - 45 Avenue des Etats Unis F-78035 Versailles Cedex, France
2
Laboratoire Léon Brillouin (LLB), CEA-CNRS, CE Saclay - F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
3
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes (ENSCR) UMR CNRS, 6052 - Av. du Général Leclerc Campus de Beaulieu, F-35700 Rennes, France
4
Département de Chimie Physique, Université de Genève - 30 quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Corresponding author: francois.varret@uvsq.fr
Received:
18
July
2006
Accepted:
11
December
2006
We present novel insight on like-spin domains (LSD) in cooperative spin transition solids by following the photo-transformation and the subsequent relaxation of a [ Fe(ptz)6] (BF4)2 single crystal in the vicinity of the light-induced instability. Self-organization under light is observed, accompanied by Barkhausen-like noise and jumps which reveal the presence of elastic interactions between LSDs. The light-induced phase separation process is discussed in terms of a dynamic potential providing spinodal instability in the corresponding temperature range. This useful concept is applicable to all types of switchable molecular solids.
PACS: 05.70.-a – Thermodynamics / 47.50.Gj – Instabilities / 64.75.+g – Solubility, segregation, and mixing; phase separation
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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