Quadrupole splitting and isomer shifts in Te oxides investigated using nuclear forward scattering

Benedikt Klobes, Nicolas Barrier, Benedicte Vertruyen, Christine Martin, Raphaël P. Hermann

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Abstract

Nuclear forward scattering by 125Te is a viable alternative to conventional 125Te Mössbauer spectroscopy avoiding all source related issues. Using reference compounds with known hyperfine parameters and Te oxides exhibiting stereochemically active lone pairs, we show that nuclear forward scattering by 125Te can be reliably used to extract quadrupole splitting energy and relative isomer shift. The rough correlation between Te-Ocoordination and quadrupole splitting energy as put forward by Takeda and Greenwood (J. Chem. Soc. Dalton, 2207, 1975), is corroborated by the presented results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)713-719
Number of pages7
JournalHyperfine Interactions
Volume226
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2014
Externally publishedYes

Funding

Acknowledgments These experiments were performed using beamlines ID18 and ID22N at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France. RPH acknowledges support from the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungzentren for funding of the Helmholtz-University Young Investigator Group NG-407 ’Lattice Dynamic in Emerging Functional Materials’.

Keywords

  • Lone-pair
  • Nuclear forward scattering
  • Quadrupole splitting

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