Thiol capped gold nanoparticles (Au-SR NPs), which are composed by gold and sulfur in the ratio of 3 : 1, have been investigated using SQUID magnetometer. The size of the synthesized particles was distributed from 2.0 nm to 3.5 nm, with an average siz...
Thiol capped gold nanoparticles (Au-SR NPs), which are composed by gold and sulfur in the ratio of 3 : 1, have been investigated using SQUID magnetometer. The size of the synthesized particles was distributed from 2.0 nm to 3.5 nm, with an average size of 2.8 nm. From the hysteresis curves at 1.8 K and 300 K the magnetic properties of the Au-SR NPs are characterized by a mixture of ferromagnetic, paramagnetic and diamagnetic components. Magnetization curves show the hysteresis behavior typical for a ferromagnet in the whole temperature range investigated. Even at 2 K the magnetization shows a gradual increase of M(H) up to H = 7 T, which implies the existence of a paramagnetic component. The negative slope of the hysteresis curve at 300 K demonstrates that the contribution of a diamagnetic component is also considerable. For the analysis, the model as a form of the linear combination of the different magnetic components was made, and it was supposed that the ferromagnetic component has no effect on the slopes of M(H) curves at high fields. The different magnetic components were separated by the slopes of M(H) curves at high fields, and effective values such as the effective paramagnetic moment, and the diamagnetic susceptibility were gained from the slope as a function of the temperature. The ferromagnetic component was calculated by the difference between the experimental M(T) data at 1 kOe and the theoretical M(T) data with the paramagnetic and diamagnetic components at the same field, and it was analyzed by the mean field model.
LaAgSb2 is known to be a material to show the charge density wave(CDW) phenomenon with two critical temperatures, 207 K and 187 K. Nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) as a local probe is sensitive to the modification of the environment of the probing nuclei such as the change of the charge density due to the formation of CDW expected in the given material. 139La NMR spectra in a single crystal LaAgSb2 were measured as a function of temperature using a standard Fourier transform(FT) pulsed NMR spectroscopy. The central spectrum corresponding to the transition of +1/2 ↔ -1/2 is relatively less influenced on the CDW in terms of the changes of its position and width than the satellite spectra corresponding to the transition of +3/2 ↔ +1/2 and -1/2 ↔ -3/2. By fitting the satellite spectra using a model with a Gaussian distribution of the quardrupole frequency(νQ), we found that the width of the νQ distribution as a function of temperature shows a typical behavior for a phase transition, and the critical temperatures of the phase transition are observed to be similar to the known critical temperatures of the CDW.