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Title: A method for extending AC susceptometry to long-timescale magnetic relaxation
As the ability to generate magnetic anisotropy in molecular materials continues to hit new milestones, concerted effort has shifted towards understanding, and potentially controlling, the mechanisms of magnetic relaxation across a large time and temperature space. Slow magnetic relaxation in molecules is highly temperature-, field-, and environment-dependent with the relevant timescale easily traversing ten orders of magnitude for current single-molecule magnets (SMM). The prospect of synthetic control over the nature of (and transition probabilities between) magnetic states make unraveling the underlying mechanisms an important yet daunting challenge. Currently, instrumental considerations dictate that the characteristic relaxation time, τ , is determined by separate methods depending on the timescale of interest. Static and dynamic probe fields are used for long- and short-timescales, respectively. Each method captures a distinct, non-overlapping time range, and experimental differences lead to the possibility of fundamentally different meanings for τ being plotted and fitted globally as a function of temperature. Herein, we present a method to generate long-timescale waveforms with standard vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM) instrumentation, allowing extension of alternating current (AC) susceptometry to SMMs and other superparamagnets with arbitrarily long relaxation time. We fit these data to a generalized Debye model and present a comparison to results obtained from direct current (DC) magnetization decay.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1904937
NSF-PAR ID:
10161499
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Volume:
21
Issue:
40
ISSN:
1463-9076
Page Range / eLocation ID:
22302 to 22307
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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