Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Manipulating electron redistribution to achieve electronic pyroelectricity in molecular [FeCo] crystals

  • Pritam Sadhukhan,
  • Shu-Qi Wu,
  • Jeremy Ian Long,
  • Takumi Nakanishi,
  • Shinji Kanegawa,
  • Kaige Gao,
  • Kaoru Yamamoto,
  • Hajime Okajima,
  • Akira Sakamoto,
  • Michael L. Baker,
  • Thomas Kroll,
  • Dimosthenis Sokaras,
  • Atsushi Okazawa,
  • Norimichi Kojima,
  • Yoshihito Shiota,
  • Kazunari Yoshizawa,
  • Osamu Sato

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25041-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Pyroelectric materials exhibiting large and nearly constant pyroelectric coefficients over a wide temperature range are highly desirable. Here, the authors develop molecular [FeCo] crystals with continuous pyroelectricity, originating from a transition between three distinct electronic structures.