Title
Magnetic dynamics of dilute iron nano-clusters in silver films from Mössbauer spectroscopy and muon spin rotation
Date Issued
01 November 2011
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Abstract
A silver film containing nanometer size clusters of iron (nominal conc. 1 at%) has been studied by Mössbauer spectroscopy and Low-Energy Muon Spin Rotation. Below about 20 K spin glass freezing due to interparticle interactions is found from both methods. Whereas Mössbauer spectra are insensitive to the fast fluctuations of cluster moments above spin glass freezing temperature, muon spin rotation in magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the polarized muon spins allows tracing the fluctuations of superparamagnetic moments. The temperature dependence of the damping of the muon spin rotation signal shows Arrhenius behavior between 10 to 100 K. Depending on the assumed shape of damping the activation energy of superparamagnetic fluctuations of cluster moments ranges between about 20 K ·kB and 40 K ·kB. Above about 120 K muon spin depolarization indicates diffusion and trapping of muons. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
Start page
149
End page
153
Volume
203
Issue
March 1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-81555208174
Source
Hyperfine Interactions
ISSN of the container
03043843
Sponsor(s)
Work supported by a Brazilian–German research program financed by CNPq and DFG 444BRA-113/55/0-1.
Acknowledgements Essential support by the LEM crew at PSI, H. Luetkens, A. Suter and Th. Prokscha is gratefully acknowledged.
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