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Published on: September 23, 2021
Implementation and applications of shaped pulses in EPR
Burkhard Endeward1, Matthias Bretschneider1, Paul Trenkler1
1Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Center of Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Str. 7, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Abstract:
In this review, we describe the application of shaped pulses for EPR spectroscopy. Pulses generated by fast arbitrary waveform generators are mostly used in the field of EPR spectroscopy for broadband (200 MHz-1 GHz) excitation of paramagnetic species. The implementation and optimization of such broadband pulses in existing EPR spectrometers, often designed and optimized for short rectangular microwave pulses, is demanding. Therefore, a major part of this review will describe in detail the implementation, testing and optimization of shaped pulses in existing EPR spectrometers. Additionally, we review applications using such pulses for broadband inversion of longitudinal magnetization as well as for the creation and manipulation of transverse magnetization in the field of dipolar and hyperfine EPR spectroscopy. They demonstrate the great potential of shaped pulses to improve the performance of pulsed EPR experiments. We give a brief theoretical description of shaped pulses and their limitations, especially for adiabatic pulses, most often used in EPR. We believe that this review can on the one hand be of practical use to EPR groups starting to work with such pulses, and on the other hand give readers an overview of the state of the art of shaped pulse applications in EPR spectroscopy.
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