Published September 1997 | Version v1
Journal article

Raman study of crystal-field excitations in Pr2CuO4

  • 1. Centre de Recherche en Physique du Solide, Departement de Physique, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1K2R1 (CANADA)
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Festkoerperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart (Germany)
  • 3. Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnicka 10, 162 00 Prague 6 (Czech Republic)
  • 4. Faculty of Physics, University of Sofia, BG-1126 Sofia (Bulgaria)
  • 5. Institute of Physics of Solids and Semiconductors, Academy Science Belarus, Tolstoi street 4, 220072 Minsk (Belarus)

Description

Raman measurements in a Pr2CuO4 single crystal show structures related to nine crystal-field (CF) excitations. They correspond to transitions within the 3H4, 3H5, and 3H6 multiplets of Pr3+ ions in C4v site symmetry. Satellites to these CF excitations are also observed and associated with the presence of an inequivalent Pr3+ site of lower symmetry. A set of CF parameters which describes the observed energy spectra is derived and compared to previous calculations. copyright 1997 The American Physical Society

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter
Journal Volume
56
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 5049-5052.
ISSN
0163-1829
CODEN
PRBMDO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
29008124
Subject category
S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
Descriptors DEI
COPPER OXIDES; CRYSTAL FIELD; PRASEODYMIUM OXIDES; RAMAN SPECTRA
Descriptors DEC
CHALCOGENIDES; COPPER COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS; SPECTRA; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS