ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 25, Number 6
JKCSEZ 25(6)
December 20, 1981 

Single crystals of Potassium Sulfate (K2SO4) have been grown from the saturated solution by the evaporation method at the optimum conditions. Radiation damages in the crystal by γ-irradiation of about 12 × 106 Roentgen have given rise to paramagnetic centers or paramagnetic defects. Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra of the centers are obtained with the X-band EPR spectrometer at room temperature. The ESR peaks of the paramagnetic species are found to be anisotropic but the peak of SO3- radical is an isotropic of Gaussian shape at g = 2.0036. A number of ESR spectra of the crystal for angular variation of the anisotropic peaks are recorded at various orientations of rotation about a, b and c crystallographic axes respectively. The g-values are calculated from the line position between anisotropic peaks and the isotropic one and then principal g-values and its direction cosines of the species are obtained by diagonalization of 9 matrix elements of the corresponding g-values. All the paramagnetic defects are identified by the characteristic principal g-values and its direction cosines.