THE ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE OF Fe+3 IN SINGLE CRYSTALS OF SPODUMENE

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Abstract
The electron spin resonance (ESR) spectrum of Fe+3 in spodumene, LiAl(SiO3)2, has been investigated at 24 kMc/sec. One set of five "allowed" transitions between the magnetic sublevels of the 6S5/2 ground state has been detected. The following values have been assigned to the parameters occurring in the spin Hamiltonian (eq. (1)) (bnm in gauss): gx = 2.0086 ± 50, gy = 2.0100 ± 50, gx ± 2.0046 ± 25, b20 = −1 430, b22 = −282, b40 = −20, b42 = 108, b44 = −182. Consideration of electric field gradients measured by methods of electric quadrupole resonance and of the orthorhombic parameters b20 and b22 did not lead to a unique assignment of the Fe+3 impurity to one of the two available cationic sites in spodumene.