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| A. C. Junqueira, A. W. Carbonari, J.Mestnik Filho, R. N. Saxena | Requires cookie* | | | Title
| Electric Field Gradient at Nb Site in the Intermetallic Compounds Nb 3 X (X = AI, In, Si, Ge, Sn) Measured by PAC  | | | | Abstract
| The electric field gradient (efg) at the Nb site in the intermetallic compounds Nb 3 X (X = Al, In, Si, Ge, Sn) was measured by the Perturbed Angular Correlation (PAC) method using the well-known gamma-gamma cascade of 133 -482 keV in lxl Ta from the ß~ decay of 1K1 Hf, substituting approximately 0.1 atom percent of Nb. The PAC results show that V zz drops by nearly 40% when X changes from Al to In, and by about 25% when X changes from Si to Ge and Sn. This behavior is most probably related to the change in the degree of sp hybridization in these compounds. The V zz values of the studied compounds do not follow the well known universal correlation for the efg's in non-cubic metals but the observed trend is well reproduced by results of ab-initio electronic structure calculations. In the case of Nb 3 Al a linear temperature dependence of the quadrupole frequencies was observed in the temperature range of 6.5 to 1210 K. | | | |
Reference
| Z. Naturforsch. 55a, 41—14 (2000); received August 25 1999 | | | |
Published
| 2000 | | | |
Keywords
| Electric Field Gradient, PAC Measurements, Nb-based Alloys, Quadrupole Interactions | | | |
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