Mössbauer effect measurement of the recoil-free fraction for 57Fe implanted in a nanophase diamond film

Abstract
The Mössbauer effect was used to investigate films of nanophase diamond (NPD) implanted with isotopically pure 57Fe at a dose of 5×1016 atoms/cm2 and an energy of 20 keV. When defects and voids created by the implantation were repaired with an overcoating layer of NPD, the recoil‐free fraction at room temperature for these samples was found to be fdia=0.94±0.06 with a corresponding Debye temperature of 1140 K. This relatively high value for f makes NPD films a promising host matrix for microgram quantities of Mössbauer isotopes.

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