Neutron spectroscopy of a novel family of Ln2 dimers

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Molecular nanomagnets containing 4f ions are attracting an increasing interest because of their large magnetic anisotropy and slow relaxation of magnetization originating from their unquenched orbital angular momentum. Clusters made of such ions are promising candidates for ehancing their slow relaxation of the magnetization at relatively high temperatures. Recently, an interesting family of asymmetric Ln2 dimers has been reported with sizable exchange interaction between the magnetic ions and large single ion anisotropies. Here we propose to exploit the MARI and IRIS spectrometers to investigate the spin dynamics of two compounds of the series, Yb2 and Er2 dimers, to better understand the role of the exchange interaction and crystal field in the relaxation mechanism.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.84795071
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/84795071
Provenance
Creator Mr Riaz Hussain; Dr Tatiana Guidi; Professor Paolo Santini; Dr Nicholas Chilton; Dr Richard Winpenny; Professor Stefano Carretta; Professor Giuseppe Amoretti; Mr Marcus Giansiracusa
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-03-20T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-03-26T23:00:00Z