Low Temperature Spin State of a Model System for Organic Ferrimagnets as Studied by Single Crystal Cw-Esr Spectroscopy

Autor: Koichi Itoh, Akira Izuoka, Daisuke Shiomi, Hiromi Sakurai, Masahiro Nishizawa, Takeji Takui, Tadashi Sugawara, Hiroshi Sawa, Kazunobu Sato, Reizo Kato
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 306:191-197
ISSN: 1058-725X
DOI: 10.1080/10587259708044566
Popis: We have studied a model compound for purely organic ferrimagnets by single crystal cw-ESR spectroscopy. The system under study is composed of two kinds of nitronylnitroxide molecules with the ground states of S=½ and S=1. These molecules are stacked in an alternating chain in the crystal. The cw-ESR signal of the compound split below 10 K into two lines, which were reproduced by the superposition of two Lorentzian lines. The X-ray measurements at 9.6 K disclosed that the crystal structure remained unchanged at low temperatures, indicating that the origin of the ESR line splitting is not attributable to structural phase transitions but to some change inherent in the spin state: Two distinguishable spin species appear in the crystal to give the line splitting. The magnetic interaction fields from the two species are elucidated on the basis of the angular dependence of the ESR linewidths: One is a three-dimensional interaction field, while the other is a one-dimensional interaction field which is ax...
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