Characterization of Cs2NaAIF6:Cr3+ and Cs2NaGaF6:Fe3+ single crystals by electron paramagnetic resonance / Caracterização dos monocristais Cs2NaAIF6:Cr3+ e Cs2NaGaF6:Fe3+ por meio de ressonancia paramagnetica eletronica

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The interest in materials with large bands of absorption and luminescence is due to the possibility of their applications as tunable solid state lasers. The crystals Cs2NaAlF6:Cr3+ and Cs2NaGaF6:Fe3+ present these properties and , naturally, some of their physical characteristics, such as the crystal field , are decisive for their optical activity and should be better investigated. This work presents a characterization of Cs2NaAlF6:Cr 3+single crystal (doped with 1%) an Cs2NaGaF6:Fe 3+single crystals ( doped with 1% an 10%) using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). In these compounds, the Cr3+(Fe3+) ions substitute Al3+ (Ga 3+) ions in two non-equivalent sites with axial symmetry with respect to the c crystallographic axis. The obtained results allow the study of the main aspects of the sites occupied by Cr3+(Fe 3+) ions, such as their geometry and intensity of crystal fiel. A commercial EPR spectrometer operating at X-ban frequencies and room temperature has been employed. Spectra at different orientations of the sample with respect to the applied magnetic field have been obtained for a large range of angles. The spectral parameters (resonance field , amplitude an linewidth) were determined from least square fits of the derivative of the Lorentzian lines. The number of lines in each spectrum was chosen by visual inspection. Using the resonance fields an the Hamiltonian of system, it was possible to find the zero fiel parameters that better reproduce the experimental behavior. Due to the large inaccuracy in the fitting an the large epen ence of transitions intensity on the sample alignment, it was not possible to determine the sign of the zero field parameters, only their magnitude. The experimental data permitted to calculate, in some cases, only the upper limit of the magnitude of a an F . We consider that studies at low temperature an the use of others techniques, like ENDOR, are necessary to increase the accuracy in the determination of the parameters (include their signs), as well as the determination of the amount of oping in each site

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parametros de campo zero monocristais - propriedades magneticas single crystals zero field parameters ressonancia paramagnetica eletronica electron paramagnetic resonance

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