Magnetic hyperfine fields of vacancy-associated119Sn in ion-implanted nickel

Magnetic hyperfine fields of¹¹⁹Sn impurity defects in nickel have been investigated by Mössbauer emission spectroscopy. Radioactive¹¹⁹Xe isotopes were implanted, annealing was performed after¹¹⁹Xe had decayed to¹¹⁹Sb. At least five different components with well-defined magnetic hyperfine fields, isomer shifts and Debye temperatures are identified in the rather complex spectra. One of these (B=2T) is known to be due to substitutional Sn. The hyperfine fields of the other components are pronouncedly larger (B=9T, B=15T, and B=17T, respectively, for single crystals). These defects are proposed to be Sn-multivacancy defects.