State of the art and opportunities in probing photoinduced phase transitions in molecular materials by conventional and picosecond X-ray diffraction

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 223, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 272-282

  Collet, Eric ^a   Buron Le Cointe, Marylise ^a   Lorenc, Maciej ^a   Cailleau, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Photocrystallography; Photoinduced transition; Spin crossover; Time resolved diffraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649117067     PISSN: 00442968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zkri.2008.0027     Document Type: Short Survey

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