M Ossbauer Spectroscopy On The Magnetic Hyperfine Interaction of Nonstoichiometric Europium Iron Garnet
M Ossbauer Spectroscopy On The Magnetic Hyperfine Interaction of Nonstoichiometric Europium Iron Garnet
M Ossbauer Spectroscopy On The Magnetic Hyperfine Interaction of Nonstoichiometric Europium Iron Garnet
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J. S. Lee
Department of Metallurgy and Material Science, Hanyang University, Ansan 425-791
The microscopic physical properties of the nonstoichiometric garnet Eu1−x Fe1+x O3 (x=0.2) have
been studied by using X-ray diffraction at room temperature and Mössbauer spectroscopy within
the temperature range from liquid nitrogen temperature to 560 K. The X-ray diffraction patterns of
the sample show coexistence of dominant garnet and a small portion of an unknown crystal phase.
However, the Mössbauer spectrum for the sample near the Néel temperature, which was 549±5 K,
shows that, within experimental errors, there were no other crystal phases. The average area ratio of
a- to d-sites for the sample was 0.76, which implies the possibility of some vacancies exsisting at the
a- and/or the d-sites. The temperature dependence of the magnetic hyperfine fields was analyzed by
using the spin-wave theory and the molecular-field model. From the analysis, the average strength
of the interaction and the molecular-field coefficients were determined to be 37.484 K and (−60.0,
95.5, −29.8)(mole/cm3 ), respectively. From the relations among molecular-field coefficients, the ion
distribution at the a- and the d-sites was {Eu3 }[Fe1.95 ](Fe2.82 )O12 .
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