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A study of continuous-wave two-frequency NQR

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A simple continuous-wave parallel to pulse version of a multifrequency nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) device was constructed and tested: two orthogonal radio-frequency (RF) fields were applied simultaneously at two suitable frequencies to a multilevel quadrupole probe (I⋝1). A modified superregenerative NQR oscillator-detector (SRO) was utilized. An additional coil and RF source were used to irradiate the sample at the second frequency. After tuning the SRO to a chosen NQR line, the signal proportional to the population difference of the corresponding pair of energy levels was monitored. When another suitable transition was saturated simultaneously, sharing one level with the monitored line, the corresponding population change was also reflected in the first signal intensity change. The phenomenon was examined for Sb nuclei in Sb2S3 powder at room temperature.

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    J. Pirnat, J. Lužnik & Z. Trontelj

  2. Physics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Pirnat, J., Lužnik, J. & Trontelj, Z. A study of continuous-wave two-frequency NQR. Appl. Magn. Reson. 30, 43–53 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03166981

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