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Publication
Physical Review Letters
Paper
Anomalous nature of neutral-to-ionic phase transition in tetrathiafulvalene-chloranil
Abstract
A phase transition starting at 84 K and indicated by a marked color change of the sample has been found in the organic insulator tetrathiafulvalene- chloranil. Optical, infrared, and Raman measurements indicate that this is a reversible transition from a nominally neutral (N) solid to a nominally ionic (I) salt. Surprisingly, the N-I transition is not first order, but occurs over a broad temperature region (∼30 K), in which there is a coexistence of N and I molecules. © 1981 The American Physical Society.