NNR IN RAPIDLY ROTATED METALS By - Nottingham eTheses ...
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8.4.3 SP<strong>IN</strong>-LATTICE RELAXATION TIMES<br />
The spin-lattice relaxation times of 111 Cd and 113 Cd were<br />
measured in the spinning and static samples. The results of<br />
1.65 ± 0.15 ms for 111Cd and 1.40 ± 0.10 ms for 113Cd at a room temp-<br />
erature of 298 K were independent of rotation rate as expected.<br />
The measured T1 for<br />
113Cd<br />
is considerably higher than Masuda's rep-<br />
orted room temperature value of 0.5 ms(137), but it is in better<br />
agreement with the figure of approximately 1.2 ms recorded by Dickson(138)<br />
No measurements of the 111Cd T1 have apparently been reported in the<br />
literature. However the relaxation time measured here is consist-<br />
ent with the lower gyromagnetic ratio of this isotope.<br />
It is of interest to compare the product T1K2T found by experi-<br />
ment with the theoretical value derived from the Korringa relation<br />
given by equation (2.23). In cadmium the direct contact mechanism<br />
arising from the s-type conduction electrons is assumed to dominate<br />
the Knight shift and the spin-lattice interactions. In this event<br />
the scalar R defined thus<br />
RT1KZT = 4'rk (Y 2<br />
Bn<br />
is a measure of electron enhancement of both K and l/T1. At room<br />
temperature the results of Seymour and Styles(133) indicate that the<br />
experimental Knight shift increases by about 4 ppm/°K. The temper-<br />
ature correction acts in the opposite direction to the chemical shift<br />
coxrection, so it is not unreasonable to take the Knight shift of<br />
cadmium at 298 K as 0.43% to a first approximation. Substituting<br />
our experimental values for the<br />
illCd<br />
and 113Cd relaxation times at