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Structure and properties of CoMnSb in the context of half-metallic ferromagnetism
2006
Although its X-ray powder diffraction patterns show a superstructure, the compound CoMnSb, like the well-known half-Heusler alloy NiMnSb, is often referred to the category of half-metallic ferromagnets with $C{1}_{b}$ structure. Our study assigns CoMnSb to space group $Fm\overline{3}m$. The crystal structure of CoMnSb can be represented as an alternation of ${\mathrm{Co}}_{2}\mathrm{Mn}\mathrm{Sb}$ and MnSb structural units, and, in contrast to NiMnSb, displays three Mn and two Sb positions in the elementary cell. The presence of nonequivalent antimony and manganese positions was verified using NMR and M\"ossbauer spectroscopic measurements. Band-structure calculations based on a proposed s…
Ni61Mössbauer study of the hyperfine magnetic field near the Ni surface
1987
$^{61}\mathrm{Ni}$ M\"ossbauer measurements have been performed at 4.2 K on spherical Ni particles covered with a protective layer of SiO, with average diameter of 500 and 50 \AA{}. The hyperfine magnetic field at $^{61}\mathrm{Ni}$ nuclei for 500-\AA{} particles has been found to be 78.3(4) kOe, compared with the field for Ni foil of 75.0(2) kOe. The small difference is due to the demagnetization and dipolar fields in 500-\AA{} particles. The spectrum of 50-\AA{} particles has a surface component with the corresponding value of the hyperfine magnetic field of 40.3(5.4) kOe. This strongly indicates that, in accordance with recent theoretical studies, there is a decrease of the hyperfine mag…
Hydrogen and deuterium decoration of In-vacancy complexes in nickel.
1987
The quantum-mechanical states of hydrogen and deuterium in pure and defected nickel have been calculated using the effective-medium theory. The defects considered include monovacancies, the substitutional In impurity, a complex of four vacancies, and a complex of an In impurity decorated with a tetrahedron of four vacancies. While the substitutional In impurity does not trap hydrogen, the vacancy and the vacancy complexes with and without In association do. The calculated binding energy to the four vacancy complex is nearly insensitive to the hydrogen isotopic mass and to the In decoration. These results, along with the dependence of the hydrogen binding energy on multiple hydrogen occupanc…
Structural fluctuations in glass-forming liquids: Mössbauer spectroscopy on iron in glycerol.
1991
M\"ossbauer absorption spectra of $^{57}\mathrm{Fe}^{2+}$ dissolved in a glycerol-water mixture have been measured over a wide temperature range (80--275 K). In the supercooled liquid state the shapes of the spectra depend strongly on temperature. The M\"ossbauer spectra can be fit with jump diffusion with a Cole-Davidson distribution of fluctuation times. The results are in agreement with those obtained from dielectric and ultrasonic volume relaxations, proving that the \ensuremath{\alpha} relaxation of viscous liquids is responsible for the line broadening of the spectra. From the temperature dependence of the integrated area of the M\"ossbauer spectrum a second dynamic process is inferre…
Lattice Instability and Competing Spin Structures in the Double Perovskite InsulatorSr2FeOsO6
2013
The semiconductor Sr2FeOsO6, depending on temperature, adopts two types of spin structures that differ in the spin sequence of ferrimagnetic iron-osmium layers along the tetragonal c axis. Neutron powder diffraction experiments, 57Fe Mossbauer spectra, and density functional theory calculations suggest that this behavior arises because a lattice instability resulting in alternating iron-osmium distances fine-tunes the balance of competing exchange interactions. Thus, Sr2FeOsO6 is an example of a double perovskite, in which the electronic phases are controlled by the interplay of spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom.
NQR/NMR and Mössbauer spectroscopy of sulfides: potential and versatility
2013
Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and nuclear gamma-resonance (NGR or Mossbauer Effect) methods are generally described as highly sensitive tools in studies of local electronic structure and symmetry in solid-state materials. This is due to high informativity in electronic structure investigations, high resolution in phase-structural diagnostics (down to nano-scale), possibility to study polycrystalline and complex compounds, and to the non-destructive character of these methods. As applied to Earth sciences, both NQR/NMR and Mossbauer spectroscopy methods contribute to mineralogical material science and mineral physics. Another important aspect is the fac…
Investigation of ultrathin iron and iron/nickel layers prepared from Langmuir-Blodgett films
1996
Oxidic and metallic iron and iron/nickel multilayers, formed after thermal and chemical treatment of Langmuir-Blodgett films, were investigated. Reduced iron-stearate multilayers were compared with evaporated films concerning their phase composition and their lateral homogeneity. The sequence of metallic and oxidic iron in the films after reduction was determined. Oxidic iron/nickel mixed layers can be prepared from Langmuir-Blodgett films, in which a magnetically non-ordered Fe3+ phase exhibiting a distribution of the quadrupole splitting is observed. After reduction of such layers, two metallic iron phases appear dependent on the nickel concentration. The hyperfine field distribution of t…
Investigation of structure, stability, phase composition and magnetic ordering in ultrathin iron/nickel films
1995
By thermal and chemical treatment of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films, oxidic and metallic Fe and Ni layers can be prepared. The films are characterised, where differences e.g. in the lateral homogeneity are found. The metallic Fe containing samples show a higher corrosion stability as compared with films prepared by other coating techniques. Mixed Fe/Ni oxidic and metallic layers, respectively, are prepared, where the Ni concentration in the oxidic films can be determined as a function of the ratio of initially transferred numbers of LB layers. The phase composition of the metallic Fe changes systematically with the Ni concentration.
Mössbauer effect study of the electronic ground state of iron(II)in tris(2-chlorophenanthroline)iron(II) perchlorate
1976
Abstract Mossbauer spectra of [Fe(2-Cl-phen) 3 ](ClO 4 ) 2 ·H 2 O have been measured in the temperature range 293 − 5 K. The spectra indicate that the iron atom in this compound possesses a spin quintet ground state throughout the temperature range under study, in contradiction to the suggested high spin-low spin transition, which has been concluded from a magnetic susceptibility study by other authors. From a theoretical analysis of the temperature dependence of the quadrupole splitting, with trigonal distortion, spin-orbit coupling, and effects of covalency taken into account, the ground term of iron(II) in this compound has been elucidated as being 5 A 1 ( 5 T 2g ), separated from the 5 …
Magnetic properties of GdPdSb and GdNiSb studied by 155Gd-Mössbauer spectroscopy
2009
Abstract 155 Gd-Mossbauer spectroscopy was applied to study the magnetic properties of GdPdSb with hexagonal LiGaGe structure and of GdNiSb in the cubic MgAgAs-type structure as well as in the hexagonal AlB 2 -type structure. In GdPdSb magnetic ordering is observed at 13.0 K with indications of a tilted spin structure at lower temperatures. In the cubic phase of GdNiSb magnetic ordering is observed at 9.5 K and in the hexagonal phase around 3.5 K. These results are discussed in conjunction with previous investigations of these samples.