Mössbauer studies of the layered compound 1T-TAS2

We report the temperature dependence in Tantalum Disulfide 1T-TaS2 of the elastic and inelastic intensities of the first order satellite (1.285, 0, 0.333) and (3, 0, 0.21) near the Bragg peaks (1, 0, 0) and (3, 0, 0), respectively. The phason temperature factor has been measured as a function of temperature from 70 to 295 K using Mossbauer gamma-ray scattering. The high-energy resolution provided by this technique allowed experimental separation of the elastic scattering from the inelastic thermal diffuse scattering. The first order satellite is found to be 15% inelastic. The results were compared with those found by Chapman and Colella obtained by X-ray method.