The Effect of Low Frequency Disturbance to SQUID Based Low Field NMR

Author

Qiu, Longqing ; Krause, Hans-Joachim ; Zhang, Yi ; Dong, Hui ; Braginski, Alex I. ; Offenhäusser, Andreas

Author_Institution

Pohl Inst. of Solid State Phys., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China

Volume

19

Issue

3

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

827

Lastpage

830

Abstract

The influence of low-frequency magnetic field disturbances on SQUID based low field (LF) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements is investigated. Two types of sinusoidal fields, a homogenous field and a linear gradient field, were applied as artificial disturbance sources. The influences on the free induction decay (FID) signals as well as on the spectra are discussed. The homogeneous disturbance field caused a frequency modulation of the FID signal. The measured spectra were found to be in good agreement with calculated traces obtained from a solution to the Bloch equation. The gradient disturbance field yielded an amplitude-modulated FID signal. In both cases, frequency mixing lines were observed. It is shown that for disturbances at the power line frequency and harmonics, the influence on the NMR spectra is negligible.

Keywords

SQUIDs; amplitude modulation; magnetic field effects; nuclear magnetic resonance; Bloch equation; NMR spectra; SQUID; amplitude-modulated FID signal; artificial disturbance sources; free induction decay signals; frequency mixing lines; low field NMR; low frequency disturbance; magnetic field disturbances; nuclear magnetic resonance; Disturbance; SQUID; low field NMR; mixing effects;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASC.2009.2019559

Filename

5067050