Comparison of the ligand HFI data for some rare-earth ions in various alkaline-earth ions in various alkaline-earth fluorides is useful from many points of view. Particularly, in the case of cubic symmetry magnetic centers, this comparison allows to estimate the distortion of the immediate vicinity of the magnetic ion, which cannot be determined directly due to the considerable covalent contribution in the first fluorine shell HFI constants.The a i m of our note was the measurement of ligand HFI constants for cubic Er3+ centers in BaF in order to compare them with those measured for cubic Er3+ in CaF2 /1/.BaF2: Er3+ single crystals were studied by the radio-frequency discrete saturation (RFDS) method / 2 / (pulse analogue of ENDOR). The experiments were carried out on the X-band RFDS spectrometer at 4.2 K . The samples (impurity concentration about 0.01%) were grown by the BridgmanStockbarger technique. Most of the impurity ions were found in trigonal sites /31. Only 2% of Er3+ form the cubic EPR spectrum with g = 6.761 (21.
2The angular dependence of the ligand RFDS spectrum was studied (Fig. 1). Only the first fluorine shell frequencies were observed. The resonance frequencies were described by the standard axial spin-Hamiltonian .
The ligand pseudonuclearZeeman interaction and the second-order corrections, quadratic in ligand HFI, have been taken into account. Measured values of the ligand HFI constants and the pseudonuclear corrections for BaFZ:Er3+ /1/ are given in Table 1.In order to determine the location of neighbouring fluorine ions, we have used Baberschke's suggestion 141, that for certain rare-earth ions in different lattices the covalent contribution A' in A linearly depends on A P P
s 'A' = A -A~ = const A~ ; P P 1) Prospekt Chavchawadze 1, SU-380028 Tbilisi, U S S R .