• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Electron paramagnetic resonance of Ag2+ dimers in Na2Zn(SO4)2⋅4H2O single crystals
  • Contributor: Krishnan, V. G.; Sastry, G. Sivarama
  • Published: AIP Publishing, 1977
  • Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 66 (1977) 6, Seite 2295-2296
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.434211
  • ISSN: 0021-9606; 1089-7690
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  • Description: Electron paramagnetic resonance studies have been made on Ag2+ ion in Na2Zn(SO4)2⋅4H2O single crystals at 300 K. Ag2+ is obtained by the x irradiation of Ag+ doped samples at ambient temperature and is found to be stable over a period exceeding one year. The EPR spectra indicate the presence of dimeric divalent silver species with the hyperfine structure with two inequivalent silver nuclei. The Ag–Ag has a singlet ground state concluded from the spectra vanishing around 100 K. The major contribution to the fine structure tensor is found to be from spin–orbit coupling.