Intensity asymmetry

The other possible reason for the intensity asymmetry (A2M1 1) of the quadrupole split doublet can be the so-called Goldanskii-Karyagin effect (Goldanskii et al. 1963), which is caused by the angular dependence of the Mossbauer-Lamb factor due to the anisotropy of lattice vibrations (jf(0) depends on 0). 

The intensity at the periphery of the line ( Ageneral rule (2.62) [20, 104]. However, the most valuable advantage of general formula (3.34) is its ability to describe continuously the spectral transformation from a static contour to that narrowed by motion (Fig. 3.1). In the process of the spectrum s transformation its maximum is gradually shifted, the asymmetry disappears and it takes the form established by perturbation theory. 

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The perturbation of the four substates of the excited 7 = 3/2 manifold by induces a typical asymmetry of the resulting magnetically split Mossbauer spectrum as pictured at the bottom of Fig. 4.10 for positive the inner four lines, 2-5, are shifted to lower velocities, whereas the outer two lines, 1 and 6, are shifted to higher velocities by equal amounts. In first order, the line intensities are not affected. For negative the line asymmetry is just inverted, as the quadmpole shift of the nuclear 1/2 and 3/2 states is opposite. Thus, the sign and the size of the EFG component along the field can be easily derived from a magnetic Mossbauer spectrum with first-order quadrupole perturbation. 

With h 6) - 1/sin 0)5(0 — Oq), one obtains the same result as given by (4.58), which implies that the anisotropy of the/factor cannot be derived from the intensity ratio of the two hyperfine components in the case of a single crystal. It can, however, be evaluated from the absolute/value of each hyperfine component. However, for a poly-crystalline absorber (0(0) = 1), (4.66) leads to an asymmetry in the quadrupole split Mossbauer spectrum. The ratio of l-Jh, as a function of the difference of the mean square amplitudes of the atomic vibration parallel and perpendicular to the y-ray propagation, is given in Fig. 4.19. 

An instructive description of the first-order perturbation treatment of the quadrupole interaction in Ni has been given by Travis and Spijkerman [3]. These authors also show in graphical form the quadrupole-spectrum line positions and the quadrupole-spectrum as a function of the asymmetry parameter r/ they give eigenvector coefficients and show the orientation dependence of the quadrupole-spectrum line intensities for a single crystal of a Ni compound. The reader is also referred to the article by Dunlap [15] about electric quadrupole interaction, in general. 

NFS spectra recorded at 300 K for -cut and c-cut crystals are shown in Fig. 9.17 [48]. The/factors for the two orientations were derived from the speed-up of the nuclear decay (i.e., from the slope of the time-dependent intensity in Fig. 9.17a and from the slope of the envelope in Fig. 9.17b). The factors obtained f ( P = 0.122 (10) and f = 0.206(10) exhibit significant anisotropic vibrational behavior of iron in GNP. This anisotropy in f is the reason for the observed asymmetry in the line intensity of the quadrupole doublet (in a conventional Mossbauer spectrum in the energy domain) of a powder sample of GNP caused by the Goldanskii-Karyagin effect [49]. 

An orientation-dependent asymmetry in line intensity of a quadrupole doublet is, in contrast to the aforementioned case, caused by the polarization response of... 

The relatively poor resolution of the XPS systems has lead to an extensive use of deconvolution techniques in order to prove the presence of shifted core levels of low intensity in the presence of unshifted levels (thin oxide layers on metal substrates). Deconvolution techniques should be used only in those cases where the presence of multi components is shown up by a shoulder in the intensity distribution. Interpretation of asymmetric peaks in terms of chemical shifts can be misleading in some cases because the asymmetry may change due to a change of the electron population at the Fermi level as was demonstrated for the metallic oxide Ir02 [23, 24],... 

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