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Published on: October 7, 2013
EPR Properties of Concentrated NdVO4 Single Crystal System
S M Kaczmarek1, H Fuks1, M Berkowski2
1Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Al. Piastow 17, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland.
Abstract:
Single crystals of NdVO4 were grown by the Czochralski method under ambient pressure in a nitrogen atmosphere. Obtained crystals were transparent with strong violet coloring. Temperature and angular dependences of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra of the samples in the 3-103 K temperature range were analyzed applying Dyson like lineshape typically used for concentrated magnetic system. EPR-NMR program was used to find local symmetry and spin-Hamiltonian parameters of neodymium ions.
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