Photoinduced macroscopic polarization change with long-lived metastable state

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The purpose of this research project is to realize the photoinduced persistent polarization change in spin crossover crystals attained by Light-Induced Excited Spin-State Trapping (LIESST) effect. After we obtained a Fe(II) spin transition complex with photoinduced polarization change in the first year, we mainly focused on exploring the factors induced the polarization change. Considering the structure of the excited state is difficult to analysis due to the low structural conversion ratio after irradiation, we confirmed that 24% of Fe(II) changes from the low spin state of the ground state to the high spin state of the excited state through variable temperature Mossbauer spectra before and after irradiation. In addition, the variable temperature IR spectra have also afforded the evidence for this result. The structure data during the spin transition from 273 K to 393 K were determined by the variable temperature single structure analysis. Combined the point charge calculation and the theoretic calculation, the calculated result indicates that the large polarization change originates from the off-centering ion displacement because of the shrinkage or expansion of cations due to the spin transition. It also shows that light-induced ion movement in a polar crystal is realized. To improve this work, the other spin crossover complex that exhibited photoinduced polarization change and complete spin transition was developed. It is a better model to study the mechanism of photoinduced polarization change and then to improve the polarization change.