A Rudimentary X band CW-EPR Spectrometer Based on FPGA

A rudimentary Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectrometer is designed using a field programmable gate array (FPGA) equipped with two digital-to-analog (DAC) and two analog-to-digital (ADC) channels. The single stage heterodyne setup operates at X band frequencies and is used to detect EPR sig...

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Main Authors: Eow, W.S (Author), Yap, Y.S (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2021
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520 3 |a A rudimentary Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectrometer is designed using a field programmable gate array (FPGA) equipped with two digital-to-analog (DAC) and two analog-to-digital (ADC) channels. The single stage heterodyne setup operates at X band frequencies and is used to detect EPR signals from 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) in a loop-gap resonator. We design the loop gap resonator with 3 loops 2 gaps for high field homogeneity and moderate Q-factor. The resonator is coupled capacitively to the coaxial cable and is designed to have an unloaded resonant frequency of 8.856 GHz with a Q-factor of 646.0 when critically coupled. The loaded resonant frequency is reported to be 8.668 GHz with a Q-factor of 615.8. Using this setup, EPR signal is successfully detected at 311.4 mT and 8.688 GHz with an experimental g-factor of 1.9945 ± 0.0012, which is very near to the standard value for DPPH. © Copyright Eow and Yap. 
650 0 4 |a Electron paramagnetic resonance 
650 0 4 |a EPR spectrometer 
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700 1 |a Yap, Y.S.  |e author 
773 |t Malaysian Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences