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Published on: July 4, 2016
Broadband electron paramagnetic resonance of a molecular spin triangle
Jérôme Robert1, Philippe Turek2, Matthieu Bailleul1
1Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS), UMR 7504, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
Abstract:
We built a broadband Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectrometer capable of field- and frequency sweep experiments under field-, microwave amplitude- and microwave frequency-modulation detection modes (HM, AM, and FM, respectively). The spectrometer is based on a coplanar waveguide (CPW) architecture, with the sample being deposited on top of the transmission line. We tested the functionality of this spectrometer by measuring a standard 2,2-diphenyl-1-(2,4,6-trinitrophenyl)hydrazyl (DPPH) sample, and complex (NBu4)2[Cu3(μ3-Cl)2(μ-pz)3Cl3] (1), drop-casted on the CPW. Complex 1 had been previously studied by conventional X-band EPR spectroscopy (Chem. - Eur. J., 2020, 26, 12769-1784), and comparison with the past studies validated the functionality of the spectrometer and confirmed the stability of the sample upon deposition. Moreover, our results highlighted the importance of surface effects and of the orientation of the microwave magnetic component B1 on the lineshapes of the recorded spectra.
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