Lanthanide-induced relaxation anisotropy

Field-induced slow magnetic relaxation in chiral seven-coordinated mononuclear lanthanide complexes.

Four couples of enantiomerically pure chiral seven-coordinated mononuclear lanthanide complexes, [(L(OEt))Dy((R,R)-Salphen)](2)·3H(2)O (1, L(OEt) = [(Cp)Co(P(O)(OEt)(2))(3)], Cp = cyclopentadiene, Salphen = N,N'-1,2-diphenylethylenebis(salicylideneiminato) dianion), [(L(OEt))Dy((S,S)-Salphen)](2)·3H(2)O (2), [(L(OEt))Dy((R,R)-5-Cl-Salcy)]·CH(3)OH·1/8H(2)O (3, Salcy = N,N'-(1,2-cyclohexanediylet...

Anisotropy-driven spin relaxation in germanium.

A unique spin depolarization mechanism, induced by the presence of g-factor anisotropy and intervalley scattering, is revealed by spin-transport measurements on long-distance germanium devices in a magnetic field longitudinal to the initial spin orientation. The confluence of electron-phonon scattering (leading to Elliott-Yafet spin flips) and this previously unobserved physics enables the extr...

Observation of slow magnetic relaxation in triple-stranded lanthanide helicates.

Two dinuclear triple-stranded helicates [Ln(2)L(3)](3+) (Ln = Dy and Tb) obtained via self-assembly from the ligand HL (2,6-diformyl-4-methylphenol di(benzoylhydrazone)) and lanthanide perchlorate have been synthesized and characterized. The crystal structural analysis demonstrates that three ligand strands wrap around a pseudo-threefold axis defined by the two metal ions, leading to a 'meso'-r...

Field-induced slow relaxation of magnetization in a tetrahedral Co(II) complex with easy plane anisotropy.

The mononuclear Co(II) complex CoBr (dmph = 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline) was obtained and X-ray structurally characterized as a distorted tetrahedron environment that is responsible for the moderately strong positive anisotropy of high spin Co(II). In combination with variable-field magnetic susceptibility data at low temperature, high-field electron paramagnetic resonance (HF-EPR) spectro...

Creep and Stress Relaxation Anisotropy of a Single-Crystal Superalloy