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Optical and magnetic properties of transition-metal ions in tetrahedral and octahedral compounds

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This paper presents the complete energy matrix of the 3d2 system containing the electron-electron interaction, the ligand-field interaction, the spin-orbit coupling interaction, and the Zeeman interaction, in which the optical spectra and g-factor of V3+and Ti2+ ions in the series of tetrahedral AIIBVI (AII=Zn, Cd, BVI=S, Se, Te) semiconductor materials are determined. In the investigation of the optical and magnetic properties of these transition-metal ions in the tetrahedral coordination complexes, we compared the data obtained from the transition-metal ions in the tetrahedral coordination complexes with those obtained from the corresponding ions in the octahedral ones, and found that the tetrahedral complexes have weaker crystal-field strength, inverse energy level ordering and stronger covalence effect.

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    HuiFang Li & HuaiQian Wang

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    HuiFang Li & XiaoYu Kuang

  3. International Centre for Materials Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    XiaoYu Kuang

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Li, H., Wang, H. & Kuang, X. Optical and magnetic properties of transition-metal ions in tetrahedral and octahedral compounds. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 54, 1796 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-011-4455-1

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