Sensitivity enhancement of NMR spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei in the solid state via population transfer

Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 47-61

  Siegel, Renée ^a,b   Nakashima, Thomas T ^a   Wasylishen, Roderick E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adiabaticity; Double frequency sweep (DFS); Fast amplitude modulation (FAM); Half integer quadrupolar nuclei; Hyperbolic secant (HS); Population transfer; Rotor assisted population transfer (RAPT); Signal enhancement; Solid state NMR

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144463839     PISSN: 15466086     EISSN: 15525023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmr.a.20037     Document Type: Review

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