Ultrafast Studies of the Light-Induced Spin Change in Fe(II)-Polypyridine Complexes

Spin-Crossover Materials: Properties and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 405-424

  Chergui, Majed ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fe(II) polypyridine complexes; Metal to ligand charge transfer (MLCT) states; Photoinduced dynamics; Spin photoswitching; Ultrafast light induced spin crossover (SCO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886485071     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118519301.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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