Growth and EPR properties of ErVO4 single crystals

• Authors: Grzegorz Leniec , Sławomir M. Kaczmarek , Marek Berkowski , Michał Głowacki , Tomasz Skibiński , Bohdan Bojanowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Single crystals of ErVO4 were grown by the Czochralski method under ambient pressure in a nitrogen atmosphere. Obtained crystals were transparent with strong pink coloring. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra were recorded as a function of the applied magnetic field. Temperature and angular dependences of the EPR spectra of the samples in the 3–300 K temperature range were analyzed applying both Lorentzian––Gauss approximation for diluted medium and Dyson for dense magnetic medium. EPR-NMR program was done to find local symmetry and spin Hamiltonian parameters of erbium ions.

Keywords

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dense magnetic medium; EPR; erbium; orthovanadate

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Nukleonika
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 405-410

Dates

published

1 - 7 - 2015

received

19 - 9 - 2014

accepted

30 - 1 - 2015

online

6 - 8 - 2015

Contributors

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Grzegorz Leniec

• Institute of Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 48 Piastów Ave., 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

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Sławomir M. Kaczmarek

• Institute of Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 48 Piastów Ave., 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

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Marek Berkowski

• Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 32/46 Lotników Ave., 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

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Michał Głowacki

• Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 32/46 Lotników Ave., 02-668 Warsaw, Poland

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Tomasz Skibiński

• Institute of Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 48 Piastów Ave., 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

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Bohdan Bojanowski

• Institute of Physics, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 48 Piastów Ave., 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/nuka-2015-0072