An electron spin resonance study of vanadium-doped alpha -TeO2single crystals
- 10 April 1995
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Vol. 7 (15), 3013-3022
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/7/15/008
Abstract
An ESR study of vanadium-doped paratellurite indicates that vanadium enters the lattice as V4+, equally populating the four inequivalent cation sites. The 3d1 electron exhibits hyperfine interaction with the I=7/2 51V nucleus and superhyperfine interaction with two neighbouring I= 1/2 nuclei identified as protons by ENDOR experiments. Spin Hamiltonian parameters computed from ESR measurements show that each V4+ ion has a single C2 symmetry axis along one of the (110) directions. The neighbouring hydrogens appear to enhance the symmetry and stability of the defect structure. Group theoretical arguments show that there are two possible linear combinations of d wavefunctions that could represent the ground state of V4+ in alpha -TeO2. However, a determination of the lower-lying state was not feasible using only the ESR data.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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