Abstract
By using Mössbauer spectroscopy in combination with susceptibility measurements it was possible to identify the supertransferred hyperfine field through the oxygen bridges between DyIII and FeIII in a {Fe4Dy2} coordination cluster. The presence of the dysprosium ions provides enough magnetic anisotropy to “block” the hyperfine field that is experienced by the iron nuclei. This has resulted in magnetic spectra with internal hyperfine fields of the iron nuclei of about 23 T. The set of data permitted us to conclude that the direction of the anisotropy in lanthanide nanosize molecular clusters is associated with the single ion and crystal field contributions and 57Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy may be informative with regard to the the anisotropy not only of the studied isotope, but also of elements interacting with this isotope.
Highlights
The huge Ising-type magnetic anisotropy of many lanthanide ions, which can be controlled by designing the ligand field, can slow down the relaxation of magnetisation and can be an effective source for the modulation of properties of transition metal molecular magnets [1]
The anisotropy of the lanthanide is severely affected by the symmetry of the crystal field and it can be controlled by a suitable design of the ligand field environment [2,3]
For molecular magnetism the DyIII ion has proved to be the most attractive [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12] because of its large flexibility regarding the interaction between the single-ion electron density and the crystal field environment, and its predicted hard anisotropy using simple ligand field considerations, and because of its huge field dependence of the relaxation time [13]
Summary
The huge Ising-type magnetic anisotropy of many lanthanide ions, which can be controlled by designing the ligand field, can slow down the relaxation of magnetisation and can be an effective source for the modulation of properties of transition metal molecular magnets [1]. Designing the ligand field environment can help to control the magnetic anisotropy of some of the later lanthanides [2,3], but this is less useful for the DyIII ion. The reported compounds [14,15] – with an antiferromagnetic coupling in the central iron dimer – show a very intriguing effect: the collapse of the magnetic hyperfine splitting under the effect of the external magnetic field.
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