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Emission Mössbauer spectroscopy study of fluence dependence of paramagnetic relaxation in Mn/Fe implanted ZnO

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Emission Mössbauer Spectroscopy following the implantation of radioactive precursor isotope 57Mn+ (T 1/2= 1.5 min) into ZnO single crystals at ISOLDE/CERN shows that a large fraction of 57Fe atoms produced in the 57Mn beta decay is created as paramagnetic Fe3+ with relatively long spin-lattice relaxation times. Here we report on ZnO pre-implanted with 56Fe to fluences of 2×1013, 5×10 13 and 8 × 1013 ions/cm2 in order to investigate the dependence of the paramagnetic relaxation rate of Fe3+ on fluence. The spectra are dominated by magnetic features displaying paramagnetic relaxation effects. The extracted spin-lattice relaxation rates show a slight increase with increasing ion fluence at corresponding temperatures and the area fraction of Fe3+ at room temperature reaches a maximum contribution of 80(3)% in the studied fluence range.

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

    H. Masenda, D. Naidoo & M. Ncube

  2. Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Jena, 07743, Jena, Germany

    S. Geburt & C. Ronning

  3. Physics Department, Durban University of Technology, Durban, 4001, South Africa

    K. Bharuth-Ram

  4. School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4000, South Africa

    K. Bharuth-Ram

  5. PH Dept, ISOLDE/CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Geneva, Switzerland

    H. P. Gunnlaugsson, K. Johnston & T. E. Mølholt

  6. KU Leuven, Instituut voor Kern-en Stralingsfysica, 3001, Leuven, Belgium

    H. P. Gunnlaugsson & G. Langouche

  7. Laboratorio MDM, IMM-CNR, Via Olivetti 2, 20864, Agrate Brianza, (MB), Italy

    R. Mantovan

  8. Institute of Materials Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Kopernikusstr. 10, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    S. Shayestehaminzadeh

  9. Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 3,107, Reykjavík, Iceland

    H. P. Gislason & S. Ólafsson

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This article is part of the Topical Collection on Proceedings of the International Conference on the Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ICAME 2015), Hamburg, Germany, 13–18 September 2015

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Masenda, H., Geburt, S., Bharuth-Ram, K. et al. Emission Mössbauer spectroscopy study of fluence dependence of paramagnetic relaxation in Mn/Fe implanted ZnO. Hyperfine Interact 237, 40 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-016-1293-6

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