An improved inductive coupler for suppressing a shift in the resonance frequency of electron paramagnetic resonance resonators

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 3187-3191

  Hirata, Hiroshi ^a   Walczak, Tadeusz ^b   Swartz, Harold M ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

COUPLING LOOP; IMPEDANCE TRANSFORMER; INDUCTIVE COUPLER; MATCHING SYSTEM; MICROWAVE RESONATOR; OPTIMAL LENGTH; RESONANCE FREQUENCY SHIFT; TRANSMISSION LINE;

RESONATORS;

EID: 0031210135     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1148265     Document Type: Article

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