Triggering a phase transition by a spatially localized laser pulse: Role of strain

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Bedoui, Salma ^a   Lopes, Manuel ^a   Nicolazzi, William ^a   Bonnet, Sylvestre ^b   Zheng, Sipeng ^b   Molnár, Gábor ^a   Bousseksou, Azzedine ^a  

^a LCC LABORATOIRE DE CHIMIE DE COORDINATION   (France)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIRST-ORDER PHASE TRANSITIONS; FOCUSED LASER BEAMS; HIGH SPINS; INITIAL DOMAINS; IRREVERSIBLE TRANSITION; MAIN CONTROL PARAMETERS; MICROSCOPIC IMAGING; NANOSECOND LASER PULSE; PHOTO-INDUCED; SLOW DYNAMICS; SPIN-CROSSOVER COMPLEXES;

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 84867015325     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.135702     Document Type: Article

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