scholarly journals Electron Spin Resonance Properties of CrI3 and CrCl3 Single Crystals

MRS Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (40) ◽  
pp. 2169-2175 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Saiz ◽  
M. A. McGuire ◽  
S. R. J. Hennadige ◽  
J. van Tol ◽  
S. R. Singamaneni
Keyword(s):  
Electron Spin Resonance ◽  
Single Crystals ◽  
Electron Spin ◽  
Microwave Frequency ◽  
Magnetic Interactions ◽  
Resonance Spectroscopy ◽  
Spin Resonance ◽  
Temperature Dependences ◽  
Bulk Single Crystals ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms

ABSTRACTDeveloping functional, cleavable two-dimensional materials for use in next generation devices has recently become a topic of considerable interest due to their unique properties. Of particular interest, transition metal halides CrI3 and CrCl3 have shown to be good contenders for tunable and cleavable magnetic materials due to their unique magnetic properties in the monolayer. Here, electron spin resonance spectroscopy is used to pinpoint the atomic origins and underlying mechanisms of magnetic interactions as a function of temperature (5-500 K) and microwave frequency (9.43, 120 GHz) on CrI3 and CrCl3 bulk single crystals. ESR signals from CrI3 due to Cr3+ were observed to decay at 460 K, while ESR signals from CrCl3 remain up to 500 K. In the case of CrCl3, the temperature dependences of signal behavior, line width and g-value show characteristic signatures of ferromagnetic fluctuations at around 40 K, near to the antiferromagnetic phase transition at 17 K.

Coherent Raman detected electron spin resonance spectroscopy of metalloproteins: linking electron spin resonance and magnetic circular dichroism

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1187-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Bingham ◽  
Daniel Wolverson ◽  
Andrew J. Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Circular Dichroism ◽  
Electron Spin Resonance ◽  
Electron Spin ◽  
Metal Ion ◽  
Magnetic Circular Dichroism ◽  
Microwave Frequency ◽  
Resonance Spectroscopy ◽  
Spin Resonance ◽  
Coherent Raman ◽  
Circular Dichroïsm

The simultaneous excitation of paramagnetic molecules with optical (laser) and microwave radiation in the presence of a magnetic field can cause an amplitude, or phase, modulation of the transmitted light at the microwave frequency. The detection of this modulation indicates the presence of coupled optical and ESR transitions. The phenomenon can be viewed as a coherent Raman effect or, in most cases, as a microwave frequency modulation of the magnetic circular dichroism by the precessing magnetization. By allowing the optical and magnetic properties of a transition metal ion centre to be correlated, it becomes possible to deconvolute the overlapping optical or ESR spectra of multiple centres in a protein or of multiple chemical forms of a particular centre. The same correlation capability also allows the relative orientation of the magnetic and optical anisotropies of each species to be measured, even when the species cannot be obtained in a crystalline form. Such measurements provide constraints on electronic structure calculations. The capabilities of the method are illustrated by data from the dimeric mixed-valence CuA centre of nitrous oxide reductase (N2OR) from Paracoccus pantotrophus.

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