Dy 3+ single ion magnet in the extended inorganic solid Ca(Y,Dy)AlO 4 .
Pavel E KazinMikhail A ZykinAndrey K DyakonovAlexander V VasilievMaxim A KarpovEvgeny A GorbachevAnastasia E SleptsovaMartin JansenPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2022)
The first instance of a rare-earth single-ion magnet in a robust extended solid has been found, which possesses a crystal structure different from apatite. The compound exhibits slow relaxation of magnetization in a zero field revealing simultaneously two energy barriers for magnetization reversal.