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1CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Private Bag 33, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia. Tim.Bastow@csiro.au
Abstract:
A short historical review is given on internal field NMR of ferromagnets, illustrated with recent pulsed NMR spectra of the elemental ferromagnets Fe, Co and Ni and the Fe-oxides magnetite, maghemite and hematite, which, with the exception of maghemite, have resonance frequencies first reported over 45 years ago. Since the magnetic hyperfine field at the nucleus is not known a priori, the original search frequency motivations are discussed along with the mechanisms for the initially much larger than expected ( approximately 10(3)) NMR signals that were observed. The (57)Fe spectra of the three principal Fe-oxide ferromagnets, magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)), maghemite (gamma-Fe(2)O(3)) and hematite (alpha-Fe(2)O(3)), obtained here under uniform spectroscopic conditions, are then discussed in more detail, with a focus on the influence of particle size and vacancy content on the hyperfine fields.
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