Numéro |
J. Phys. I France
Volume 1, Numéro 4, April 1991
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Page(s) | 537 - 551 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/jp1:1991150 |
J. Phys. I France 1 (1991) 537-551
ESR in CrCl
-based graphite intercalation and bi-intercalation compounds
S. Chehab, P. Biensan, J. Amiell and S. Flandrois Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, C.N.R.S., Château Brivazac, 33600 Pessac, France
(Received 14 September 1990, revised 29 October 1990, accepted 13 December 1990)
Abstract
ESR experiments have been performed on stage-1, -2, -3, CrCl
3 graphite intercalation compounds as well as on CrCl
3-CdCl
2 and CrCl
3-MnCl
2 graphite bi-intercalation compounds. The measurements have been carried out at the X-band frequency and over the temperature
range
. The variation of the linewidth
and the resonance field
have been examined as a function of the temperature and the angle
between the external field and the crystal
c-axis. The results reflect the anisotropic 2D character of these systems. The room temperature angular dependence of
follows a
-like behavior and that of
has a
-like form. For the singly intercalated systems,
decreases with
T according to
in the high temperature region, then shows a local minimum at around 35 K followed by a critical-like divergence at lower
temperatures. In the bi-intercalated compounds,
vs.
T exhibits three types of behavior : for
K,
behaves like
T2; for 120 K
,
seems to be proportional to
; for
K,
shows a gradual increase which becomes steeper and steeper with falling
T. The
T2-like behavior may be explained in connection to a spin-lattice relaxation phenomenon which becomes important at high temperatures.
The temperature dependence of
is characterized by an increase of
and a decrease of
with decreasing temperature. This is consistent with the theoretical predictions developed for anisotropic low-dimensional
systems, reflecting the increase in the anisotropy of low temperature susceptibility.
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