Magnetic Resonance in CuCr₂S₄ Nanoclusters and Nanocrystals

Abstract:

Nanoclusters and nanocrystals of the room temperature magnetic spinel CuCr₂S₄ synthesized using a facile solution-based method were examined by magnetic resonance in a wide frequency range 9.6÷80 GHz and at temperatures down to 4.2 K. Decreasing of the resonance field and broadening of the resonance lines are found below ∼ 50 K for both the nanocluster and nanocube samples due to the freezing of magnetic moments of nanocubes and nanocrystalline particles constituting nanoclusters. Additional blocking temperature T_b≅300 K appears in nanoclusters due to the freezing of the magnetic moment of the entire cluster as a whole. Below this temperature, an additional low-field resonance line is found in the resonance spectra of nanoclusters at X-band.

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