Cryogenic Q-band (35 GHz) probehead featuring large excitation microwave fields for pulse and continuous wave electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy: Performance and applications

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 280-291

  Forrer, Jörg ^a   García Rubio, Inés ^a   Schuhmam, Rolf ^b   Tschaggelar, Rene ^a   Harmer, Jeffrey ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

DQ EPR; EPR; Hyperfine decoupling; HYSCORE; Loop gap resonator; Q band probehead

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROWAVES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HYPERFINE DECOUPLING; LOOP GAP RESONATORS (LGR); MICROWAVE FIELDS;

RESONATORS;

HISTIDINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COLD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HISTIDINE; MICROWAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 38149039368     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: 10960856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmr.2007.11.009     Document Type: Article

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