Published September 1, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Light-induced structural changes by excitation of metastable states in Na2[Fe(CN)5NO]2H2O single crystals

  • 1. Institut fuer Mineralogie, University at Cologne, D-50674 Cologne (Germany)
  • 2. Fachbereich Physik, University of Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck (Germany)
  • 3. Laboratory for Neutron Scattering, ETHZ and PSI, CH-5232 Villigen, PSI (Switzerland)

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The structures of the ground state and the light-induced metastable state SI of Na2[Fe(CN)5NO]2H2O were investigated by single-crystal neutron diffraction. We propose that a small but significant change in the Fe-N bond length (≅0.05A) and in the C-Fe-N angle (≅3.5 deg.) are the only rearrangements in the structure connected with the excitation of the metastable state SI. This result is consistently found for two data sets with different populations (22% and 44%) of the metastable state SI

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Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Journal Volume
68
Journal Issue
10
Journal Page Range
p. 104108-104108.11
ISSN
1098-0121

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