1.Kazan State University,Kazan,Tatarstan, Russia;2.Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences,University of Leipzig,Leipzig,Germany;3.Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,University of California,Davis,USA
Abstract:
This paper reports on the results of EPR studies of mixed CeO2-Y2O3 crystals (including nanosized crystals) doped by gadolinium ions. It is revealed that the width of the line corresponding to the allowed transition 1/2 ↔ −1/2 between the Kramers-conjugated states |±1/2〉 of the Gd3+ ion decreases with a decrease in the powder size from macrosizes to nanosizes. The observed dependence can be due to the increase in the unit cell size during grinding of the samples.