Investigação de interações hiperfinas em pó e filmes finos de dióxido de háfnio  pela técnica de correlação  angular gama-gama perturbada

Abstract

Hyperfine interactions in the powder samples and nanostructured thin films of hafnium dioxide have been studied through the perturbed angular correlation (PAC) technique in order to perform a systematic study of the behavior of quadrupole parameters with the annealing temperature. The PAC measurements were performed with the probe. The probe was produced by the neutron irradiation in the IEA-R1 nuclear reactor of IPEN. Samples were prepared using sol-gel chemical process. The samples were analyzed by X-ray diffraction, SEM and EDS. The powder samples were all produced in the Laboratory of Hyperfine Interactions of IPEN, however the thin film with a thickness of was produced by the Lasers and Applications Center (CLA) of IPEN and the thin film of a thickness of were produced by the Hyperfine Interactions Laboratory of the Lisbon University. All the measurements were perform at room temperature and showed that the monoclinic phase is present in all the samples and their fraction tends to increase with increasing annealing temperature to which the samples were submitted. Some of the samples were doped with 3d elements Co and Fe in order to observe the possible existence of ferromagnetism at room temperature.