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Magnetic Field at the Nucleus in Spinel-Type Crystals

W. H. Kelly

V. J. Folen and M. Hass*

W. N. Schreiner and G. B. Beard

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

  • U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C.

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

  • *Summer visitor, 1960, Michigan State University.
  • National Science Foundation, Undergraduate Research Participant.
  • Now at Department of Physics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

Phys. Rev. 124, 80 – Published 1 October, 1961

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.124.80

Abstract

Measurements of the magnetic field at the Fe57 nucleus were obtained on powder samples at room temperature using the Mössbauer effect for the spinel-type ferrites γ-Fe2O3, "ordered" lithium ferrite (Li0.5Fe2.5O4), and "disordered" lithium ferrite giving values of|496±20|koe,|508±20|koe, and|510±20| koe. These compounds contain only trivalent and no divalent iron. The Mössbauer spectra of all of these compounds were very similar and no difference could be detected between the "ordered" and "disordered" compounds. Only one set of lines was observed indicating that the fields at the octahedral and tetrahedral sites are about the same value. The value of the hyperfine interaction constant A obtained from electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum of the divalent Mn55 (isoelectronic with trivalent Fe) impurity in single crystals of the isomorphous spinel-type crystal "disordered" lithium aluminate (Li0.5Al2.5O4) was found to be|77.2±1.0| ×104 cm1. The angular variation of the spectrum indicated that the divalent Mn55 ions were located substantially on octahedral sites. The corresponding magnetic field for the Mn55 nucleus is around 550 koe, which is close to the value obtained elsewhere for the Mn55 nucleus located on a tetrahedral site in a spinel-type aluminate. This is in good agreement with the Mössbauer results.

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