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Spin echo studies on Fe3+ ions in GaN: Spin-phonon relaxation and ligand hyperfine interactions

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The electron spin echo detected inversion recovery technique at the Q-band frequency was used to characterize spin diffusion effects in spin-lattice relaxation of compensating Fe3+ impurities in n-type doped GaN… Click to show full abstract

The electron spin echo detected inversion recovery technique at the Q-band frequency was used to characterize spin diffusion effects in spin-lattice relaxation of compensating Fe3+ impurities in n-type doped GaN crystals. It was found that the selective saturation can be achieved in the GaN:Fe3+ system due to magnetization transfer based on the spin flip-flop cross-relaxation processes. The temperature dependence of 1/T1 can be explained by direct spin-phonon processes ( ∼ T) below 25 K and by Raman two-phonon processes ( ∼ T 9) at higher temperatures. Spin diffusion in this system is characterized by an additional cross-relaxation rate which is weakly temperature-dependent below 25 K. The transferred hyperfine interactions of Fe3+ centers with gallium and nitrogen neighbor nuclei were resolved using pulsed-electron nuclear double resonance. A comparative analysis of quadrupole interactions indicates the essential increase in the electric field gradients on the nearest nitrogen and gallium shells.

Keywords: spin phonon; relaxation; echo studies; phonon; hyperfine interactions; spin echo

Journal Title: Applied Physics Letters
Year Published: 2020

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