INVESTIGATIONS OF THE EPR PARAMETERS FORDy3+CENTER INZrSiO4CRYSTAL

Abstract

The electronic paramagnetic resonance g factors g‖, g⊥of Dy3+centers and the hyperfine structure constants A‖and A⊥of161Dy3+and163Dy3+isotopes in ZrSiO4crystal are theoretically studied from the perturbation formulas of the spin Hamiltonian parameters for a 4f9ion in tetragonal symmetry. In these formulas, the contributions to g factors due to the J-mixing among the ground6H15/2, the first excited6H13/2and second excited6H11/2states via crystal-field interaction, the admixtures among the states with the same J value via spin-orbit coupling interaction and the interactions between the lowest Kramers doublet Γγ and other 20 Kramers doublets ΓXwithin the states6HJ(J=15/2, 13/2 and 11/2) via crystal-field and orbital angular momentum interactions are considered. The calculated EPR parameters show reasonable agreement with the observed values. The results are discussed.