Population and Coherence Transfer Induced by Double Frequency Sweeps in Half-Integer Quadrupolar Spin Systems

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 192-209

  Iuga, Dinu ^a   Schäfer, Hartmut ^a   Verhagen, Rieko ^a   Kentgens, Arno P M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coherence transfer; Double frequency sweeps; MQMAS; Population transfer; Sensitivity enhancement

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POWDER;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICS; POWDERS;

EID: 0034575873     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.2000.2192     Document Type: Article

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