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Simultaneous Measurements of Picosecond Lattice and Charge Dynamics in Co--Fe Cyanides

Source: Appl. Phys. Express 3, 016601 (2010); doi:10.1143/APEX.3.016601

Issue Date: February 2010

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1553-9601 (online)
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Yoshimitsu Fukuyama
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Nobuhiro Yasuda
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Hayato Kamioka
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Jungeun Kim
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Takayuki Shibata
TIMS, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan

Hitoshi Osawa
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Takeshi Nakagawa
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Haruno Murayama
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Kenichi Kato
CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan

Yoshihito Tanaka
CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan

Shigeru Kimura
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Takashi Ohshima
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan

Hitoshi Tanaka
XFEL Project Head Office/RIKEN, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan

Masaki Takata
CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan

Yutaka Moritomo
JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
Simultaneous measurements of picosecond time-resolved synchrotron-radiation (SR) X-ray diffraction and femtosecond time-resolved visible absorption were performed at BL40XU beamline of SPring-8 on two films of Co--Fe cyanides, Na0.77Co[Fe(CN)6]0.902.9H2O (NCF90) and Na0.16Co[Fe(CN)6]0.713.8H2O (NCF71). The simultaneous measurements unambiguously revealed that the photoinduced charge transfer between the Co and Fe sites causes uniform volume expansion/contraction within 100 ps. The photoinduced lattice contraction observed in the NCF71 film can be interpreted in terms of the photoinduced formation of a hidden metastable phase. ©2010
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