Mössbauer Effect Methodology, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1974

This is the ninth volume of a continuing series intended to provide a forum for publication of develop­ ments in Mossbauer effect methodology and in spectroscopy and its applications. Mossbauer Effect Methodology, Volume 9, records the proceedings of the Ninth Symposium on Mossbauer Effect Methodology. The symposium was sponsored by the New England Nuclear Corporation and interest was concentrated on spectroscopy and applications, with more than usual emphasis on new methodology. The symposium was held in the Palmer House in Chicago on February 3, 1974. Dr. Stanley Hanna presided over the afternoon and evening sessions. Attendance was lower than usual; about one hundred participants were present. This may reflect the continu­ ing pressure of travel budget limitations. Contributing Sponsors were Austin Science Associates, El Scint, Inc., Nuclear Science Instruments and Ranger Electronics. These organizations demonstrated their products for Mossbauer applications. The continuing improvements in the spectrometers and their adjuncts was evident. The Selection Committee again had a most difficult task, and was obliged to accept only about half of the submitted papers. A most interesting group of papers on applications and spectroscopy featured reports on electronic relaxation phenomena, magnetic phase and spin transformations, photochromism in strontium titanate, lattice studies, and phase determination by Kossel analysis. The excellent methodology session included presentations on data analysis techniques for spectral folding, hyperfine interaction analysis and recoil-free fraction measurement, a backscatter spectrometer and a report on a Selective Excitation Double Mossbauer method to study time-dependent phenomena.

Applications And Spectroscopy.- 57Fe Mössbauer Effect Studies of High-Spin (5T2) ? Low-Spin (1A1) Transitions in Organic Complexes of Iron (II).- Self-Absorption Mössbauer Investigation of Neutron-Activated Krypton.- Mössbauer Spectroscopy of 125Te — Some New Results and Applications.- Study of Photochromic Strontium Titanate by Mössbauer Effect.- Lattice Softening and Phonon Moments in High Tc Superconductors.- A Mössbauer Observation of Anisotropic Diffusion Near the Glass Transition of a Smectic H Liquid Crystal.- Mössbauer Effect Studies of Electronic Relaxation in Ferric Compounds.- Phase Transitions in Antiferromagnets in External Magnetic Fields: Mössbauer Spectroscopy.- Phase Determination by Kossel Cone Analysis Utilizing the Mössbauer Effect.- Retrieval, Documentation, and Evaluation of Mössbauer Spectroscopy Data.- Methodology.- Comparison of Techniques for Folding and Unfolding Mössbauer Spectra for Data Analysis.- Determination of Transmission Integral Parameters by Simultaneous Fits to Thick-Absorber Mössbauer Spectra: Application to 151Eu2O3.- A Mössbauer Backscatter Spectrometer with Full Data Processing Capability.- A Method for Depth Selective ME-Spectroscopy.- Curve Fitting and the Transmission Integral: Warnings and Suggestions.- Selective Excitation Double Mössbauer Spectroscopy.- Contributors.