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Published on: August 22, 2017
Photoassisted magnetization of fullerene C60 with magnetic-field trapped Raman scattering
Zhixun Luo1, Xiao Cheng, Yi Luo
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science (Bnlms), and Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Abstract:
We report a photoassisted method to magnetize microcrystal fullerene C(60) at room temperature by exciting it to triplet states via a proper laser radiation and then trapping the spin-polarized states under a strong magnetic field. Novel changes on Raman scattering of the C(60) microcrystals were observed in the presence and absence of the magnetic field. In particular, the Raman spectra were found to exhibit a "hysteresis" phenomenon when the external magnetic field was removed. In light of this, we propose magnetic-field-trapped Raman spectroscopy (MFTRS) and employ first-principle calculations to reproduce the Raman activities of C(60) at different states. Further, MFTRS of the fullerene is demonstrated to originate from its photoassisted magnetization (PAM). The PAM strategy enables the magnetization of materials which consist of only light elements; meanwhile, the MFTRS investigation may open a new research field in Raman spectroscopy.
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