Thursday, July 4, 2013

1307.0812 (Rose L. Ahlefeldt et al.)

A method for assigning satellite lines to crystallographic sites in rare
earth crystals
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Rose L. Ahlefeldt, Neil B. Manson, Wayne D. Hutchison, Matthew J. Sellars
We describe an experimental technique for associating the satellite lines in a rare earth optical spectrum caused by a defect with the rare earth ions in crystal sites around that defect. This method involves measuring the hyperfine splitting caused by a magnetic dipole-dipole interaction between host ions and a magnetic defect. The method was applied to Ce3+:EuCl3.6H2O to assign 13 of the outermost 22 satellite lines to sites. The assignments show that the optical shift of a satellite line is loosely dependent on the distance to the dopant. The interaction between host and dopant ions is purely dipole-dipole at distances greater than 7 Angstroms, with an additional contribution, likely superexchange, at distances less than 7 Angstroms.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0812

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