TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Basuroy, Krishnayan
AU  - Velazquez Garcia, Jose
AU  - Lalithambika, Sreeju Sreekantan Nair
AU  - Barman, Argha
AU  - Reuss, Torben
AU  - Pompidor, Guillaume
AU  - Grebentsov, Alexander
AU  - Akcaalan, Oender
AU  - Techert, Simone
TI  - Photoinduced Low Spin to High Spin Transition in a [2x2] Fe(II) Metallogrid: Diode Laser-Pumped Photocrystallography at the P11 Beamline in PETRA III, DESY
IS  - arXiv:2508.01734
M1  - PUBDB-2025-03871
M1  - arXiv:2508.01734
PY  - 2025
AB  - We report on the photoinduced spin crossover (SCO) transition from a 2HS-2LS to a 3HS-1LS state in a [2x2] Fe(II) metallogrid complex using molecular crystals with static photocrystallography at a first ever attempt in the beamline P11 of the PETRA III synchrotron, DESY. A class 3B diode laser was used to induce the transition under controlled irradiation conditions. Structural characterization was achieved through single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) measurements post-irradiation, revealing significant changes in average Fe-N distances, consistent with SCO behavior. Our experimental setup enables precise alignment necessary for photo-excitation using a class 3B diode laser along with a compact focusing optics. The longest dimension of the combined setup of the diode head and the focusing optics is not more than 32cm. The setup showcasing the utility of a compact diode laser system which can even be conveniently used in synchrotron-based pump-probe photocrystallography experiments for a wide range of molecular crystals.
KW  - Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) (Other)
KW  - Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph) (Other)
KW  - Optics (physics.optics) (Other)
KW  - FOS: Physical sciences (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)25
DO  - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2025-03871
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/637645
ER  -