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Journal
Description: 
Inversion recovery with electron spin-echo detection has been used to study the electron spin-lattice relaxation rates 1 / T 1 for transition metal impurities in heavily cobalt-doped hydrothermally grown ZnO single crystals. The relaxation dynamics of Co 2 + ions dominates the phonon bottleneck effect in the Orbach-Aminov process, which involves the modulation of the zero-field-splitting tensor. The relaxation mechanism may be treated in terms of phonon heating with fast rate of energy pump from Co 2 + spins into the lattice phonon modes. The measurements reveal the cross-relaxation process in which the single Co 2 + ions cross-relax to exchange-coupled clusters of cobalt ions. The higher temperature relaxation of Co 2 + indicates an additional Orbach-Aminov process via a state of ∼ 226 cm − 1 above the ground state Kramers doublet. It is shown that in this system Co 2 + ions play a role of the rapidly relaxing …
Publisher: 
AIP Publishing LLC
Publication date: 
28 Sep 2019
Authors: 

DV Azamat, AG Badalyan, PG Baranov, M Fanciulli, J Lanc̆ok, M Hrabovsky, L Jastrabik, A Dejneka

Biblio References: 
Volume: 126 Issue: 12 Pages: 123903
Origin: 
Journal of Applied Physics