title: Photoinduced charge-transfer process in rubidium manganese hexacyanoferrate probed by Raman spectroscopy.
abstract: The photoinduced charge-transfer process in Rb(0.94)Mn[Fe(CN)(6)](0.98).0.2H(2)O is investigated by observing the valence states of the metal ions by Raman spectroscopy. The sample in the high-temperature phase is irradiated at the ligand to metal, CN(-)-->Fe(III) and charge-transfer band (lambda=395 nm). The Fe(III)-CN-Mn(II) pair valence state corresponding to the high-temperature configuration is totally depleted after prolonged irradiation, and the Fe(II)-CN-Mn(III) pair valence state corresponding to the low-temperature configuration appears. In addition, two kinds of CN stretching modes, ascribed to Fe(II)-CN-Mn(II) and Fe(III)-CN-Mn(III) pair valence states, are found. The photoproduction process of each pair valence states is well reproduced by a kinetic model assuming a charge transfer from Mn(II) to Fe(III). During irradiation, continuous shifts of the Raman peaks are found and ascribed to a release of the strain due to the lattice mismatching between the high-temperature and the photoinduced phases. This behavior indicates that the photoinduced phase created locally in the high-temperature-phase lattice grows up to a photoinduced phase domain. The conversion efficiency is lowered with decreasing temperature, indicating the existence of an energy barrier. We propose a model, which can explain the existence of an energy barrier in the electronic excited state.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan. fukaya@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fukaya
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tokoro
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohkoshi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suemoto