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- Title
Femtosecond Polarization Switching in the Crystal of a [CrCo] Dinuclear Complex.
- Authors
Kuramochi, Hikaru; Aoyama, Genki; Okajima, Hajime; Sakamoto, Akira; Kanegawa, Shinji; Sato, Osamu; Takeuchi, Satoshi; Tahara, Tahei
- Abstract
Capability to control macroscopic molecular properties with external stimuli offers the possibility to exploit molecules as switching devices of various types. However, application of such molecular‐level switching has often been limited by its speed and thus efficiency. Herein, we demonstrate ultrafast, photoinduced polarization switching in the crystal of a [CrCo] dinuclear complex by ultrafast pump–probe spectroscopy in the visible and mid‐infrared regions. The photoinduced polarization switching was found to have a time constant of 280 fs, which makes the [CrCo] complex crystal the fastest polarization‐switching material realized using the metastable state. Moreover, the pump–probe data in the visible region reveal the pronounced appearance of coherent nuclear wavepacket motion with a frequency as low as 22 cm−1, which we attribute to a lattice vibrational mode. The pronounced non‐Condon effect for its resonance Raman enhancement implies that this mode couples the relevant electronic states, thereby facilitating the ultrafast polarization switching.
- Subjects
RESONANCE Raman effect; OPTICAL spectroscopy; METASTABLE states; CRYSTALS; SURFACE enhanced Raman effect; SPEED limits
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 37, p15999
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202004583