Abstract
Positive muons can be implanted into organic and molecular magnets in order to study their internal magnetic field distribution and any associated dynamics. The muon behaves essentially as a "microscopic magnetometer", sensitive to local magnetic order and magnetic fluctuations. We describe some recent experiments using this technique which were performed on a variety of organic systems, including nitronyl nitroxide magnets and materials with spin-Peierls ground states, MF-M(TCNQ)(2) and DEM(TCNQ)(2), and demonstrate how the technique can give information concerning their ground states.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 169-177 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Hyperfine Interactions |
Volume | 133 |
Issue number | 1-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2001 |