Muon Spin Relaxation studies of Ni2TCNQ, Ni(TCNQ)2 and related materials

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Amorphous molecular magnetic materials Ni2(OA) (OA:organic acceptor) were reported to exhibit ferromagnetism with Curie temperatures >400K. This work is controversial as it has been claimed that nickel nanoparticles may explain these observations and hence implies that the materials are magnetically inhomogeneous; muon spin relaxation may be an important probe to resolve this controversy. We propose to carry out transverse and zero field measurements of Ni2TCNQ (TCNQ: tetracyanoquinodimethane), reported to have Tc = 480K, as well as the tetrafluoro-derivative, NiTCNQF4. We will measure muon spin relaxation between 12 K and 550K to investigate the magnetic properties above and below the magnetic transition. For comparison, we also propose to carry out similar measurements on Ni(TCNQ)2, a crystalline material which is believed to exhibit a bulk glassy ferromagnetic ordered state at T<20K.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24079479
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24079479
Provenance
Creator Dr Ian Terry; Dr Adam Berlie
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-07-12T10:55:54Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-07-22T08:44:32Z