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Simultaneous effects of relaxation and polarization transfer in LaF3-type crystals as sources of dynamic information
1Institut für Festkörperphysik, TU Darmstadt, Hochschulstr. 6, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
Abstract:
Fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin-lattice relaxation dispersion has been measured for pure LaF(3) and La(1-x)Sr(x)F(3-x) for admixture concentrations x ranging from 0.01% up to 16%. The relaxation dispersion experiments have been carried out in a wide frequency range (20 kHz-40 MHz) at temperatures between 300 and 1400 K. The data have been analyzed using the recently published [J. Magn. Res. 179 (2006) 250] relaxation model for multispin systems of mutually interacting quadrupolar and dipolar nuclei. Rate constants of the fluorine ionic jumps within and among distinct fluorine sublattices have been extracted. Characteristic effects of the polarization transfer between fluorine and lanthanum spins have been observed and attributed to slow dynamics within one of the fluorine sublattices.
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