%0 Journal Article %T M ssbauer spectroscopy of iron-based superconductors %A A. B achowski %A K. Ruebenbauer %A J. ukrowski %J Annales UMCS, Sectio AAA: PHYSICA %D 2011 %I %R 10.2478/v10246-012-0008-3 %X A brief review concerned with the application of the M ssbauer spectroscopy to the investigations of iron-based superconductors is given. An introduction is devoted to the description of the most important features of the M ssbauer spectroscopy followed by the discussion of the basic properties of iron-based superconductors. Our results obtained for FeSe, LiFeP and parent compounds of the ¡®122¡¯ family, i.e., for AFe2As2 (A=Ca, Ba, Eu) are discussed later on with particular attention paid to the spin density wave (SDW) magnetism exhibited by the parents of the ¡®122¡¯ family. It is found that incommensurate SDW contain many harmonics in these layered structures and evolve from almost separated magnetic sheets through quasi-triangular forms to almost rectangular shape with the lowered temperature. %U http://versita.metapress.com/content/8104w8k3226v9451/?p=3ed9403835e246789b05b650df884098&pi=7