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EPR study of NO radicals encased in modified open C60 fullerenes
Klaus-Peter Dinse1, Tatsuhisa Kato2, Shota Hasegawa2
1Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Physik, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
Using pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) techniques, the low-temperature magnetic properties of the NO radical being confined in two different modified open -derived cages are determined. It is found that the smallest principal value , being assigned to the axis of the radical, deviates strongly from the free electron value. This behaviour results from partial compensation of the spin and orbital contributions to the value. The measured values in the range of 0.7 yield information about the deviation of the locking potential for the encaged NO from axial symmetry. The estimated 17 meV asymmetry is quite small compared to the situation found for the same radical in polycrystalline or amorphous matrices ranging from 300 to 500 meV. The analysis of the temperature dependence of spin relaxation times resulted in an activation temperature of about 3 K, assigned to temperature-activated motion of the NO within the modified open -derived cages with coupled rotational and translational degrees of freedom in a complicated three-dimensional locking potential.
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