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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 713-719 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Hyperfine Interactions |
Volume | 226 |
Issue number | 1-3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
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