Anomalous change in electron density at nuclear sites in nanosize zinc ferrite
- 13 September 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 85 (11), 2074-2076
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1786368
Abstract
Nanosize samples of zincferrite with different particle sizes synthesized by citrate precursor route have been studied by x-ray diffraction,transmission electron microscopy and Mössbauer spectroscopy. The observations suggest that the electronic processes depend sensitively on size, and a big variation occurs in the pattern of temperature dependence of isomer shift on changing the size from 5 nm to 6 nm and from 6 nm to 7 nm . The electron density at the nuclear sites first increases, then decreases and again increases as the temperature of the nanosize samples is increased from 12 K to 400 K . The electric-field gradient varies considerably as the size is changed, but remains almost independent of temperature for a particular size. It is concluded that different aspects of hyperfine interactions in nanophase become significant at different sizes.Keywords
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