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Fifty Years of Mössbauer Spectroscopy in Solid State Research – Remarkable Achievements, Future Perspectives
Author(s) -
Gütlich Philipp
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine chemie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.354
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1521-3749
pISSN - 0044-2313
DOI - 10.1002/zaac.201100416
Subject(s) - mössbauer spectroscopy , hyperfine structure , solid state , physics , valence (chemistry) , condensed matter physics , spectroscopy , german , theoretical physics , atomic physics , engineering physics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , philosophy , linguistics
Mössbauer spectroscopy was founded more than fifty years ago based on an outstanding discovery by the young German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer while working on his Ph.D. thesis. He discovered the recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence of gamma radiation and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1961 as one of the youngest recipients of this most prestigious award. His discovery led to the development of a new technique for measurements of hyperfine interactions between nuclear moments and electromagnetic fields. This method, with highest sharpness of tuning of 10 –13 , yields information on valence state, symmetry, magnetic behavior, phase transition, lattice dynamics and other solid state properties.