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Fe3C nanoparticle formation in Fe implanted HOPG and CVD diamond

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We have conducted conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy (CEMS) studies of Fe-carbides produced in Fe implanted highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and CVD diamond substrates. The samples were implanted at room temperature with 57Fe ions with 40 keV and 60 keV, respectively, and corresponding fluences of 1.0·1016/cm2 and 5·1015/cm2. The formation of magnetic structures in the spectra was monitored with CEMS measurement after annealing the samples at temperatures up to 700 °C. After the high temperature annealing, the main components in the spectra were sextets whose line shapes displayed strong, asymmetric distortions, consistent with those due the formation of nanoclusters. The hyperfine magnetic fields Bhf = 21.6 T, 20.0 T and 18 (1) T were in good agreement with those observed previously for Fe3C nanoclusters 10–20 nm in size.

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  • 05 September 2019

    Due to technical constraints this article was published in volume 240:1 with erroneous article citation ID number 6 whereas this should have been 76 which is corrected as such. Springer Nature sincerely apologizes towards the author(s) for the inconvenience caused.

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The authors acknowledge the support of the National Research Foundation (South Africa) and of the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation within the framework its of “Institutspartnerschaft”.

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  1. School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4041, South Africa

    Krishanlal Bharuth-Ram

  2. Physics Department, Durban University of Technology, Durban, 4000, South Africa

    Krishanlal Bharuth-Ram & Carsten Ronning

  3. School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa

    Hilary Masenda

  4. Institute for Solid State Physics, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Jena, Germany

    Carsten Ronning

  5. Second Physics Institute, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Hans Hofsäss

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Bharuth-Ram, K., Masenda, H., Ronning, C. et al. Fe3C nanoparticle formation in Fe implanted HOPG and CVD diamond. Hyperfine Interact 240, 76 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-019-1615-6

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