Sk. Misra, ESTIMATION OF THE MN2-FIELD SPLITTING PARAMETER FROM A POLYCRYSTALLINE EPR SPECTRUM( ZERO), Physica. B, Condensed matter, 203(1-2), 1994, pp. 193-200
Details are provided of how to estimate, without extensive computer si
mulations, the zero-field splitting parameter (D) of the Mn2+ ion char
acterized by axial symmetry from forbidden-hyperfine doublet separatio
ns in the central sextet of the Mn2+ EPR spectrum in a polycrystalline
sample by the use of an analytic expression derived from the eigenval
ues calculated to third order in perturbation.