The performance of rectangular radio frequency (RF) coils capable of being used to detect nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) signals from blister packs of medicines has been compared. The performance of a fixed-pitch RF coil was compared with that from two variable-pitch coils, one based on a design in the literature and the other optimized to obtain the most homogeneous RF field over the whole...

We report a study of the low-temperature high-pressure phase diagram of the intermetallic compound PrCu2, by means of molecular-field calculations and Cu nuclear-quadrupole-resonance (NQR) measurements under pressure. The pressure-induced magnetically-ordered phase can be accounted for by considering the influence of the crystal electric field on the 4f electron orbitals of the Pr ions and by i...

Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) is a solid-state radio frequency spectroscopic technique that can be used to detect the presence of quadrupolar nuclei, that are prevalent in many narcotics, drugs, and explosive materials. Similar to other modern spectroscopic techniques, such as nuclear magnetic resonance, and Raman spectroscopy, NQR also relies heavily on statistical signal processing syste...

Rhenium-185/187 solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) experiments using NaReO(4) and NH(4)ReO(4) powders provide unambiguous evidence for the existence of high-order quadrupole-induced effects (HOQIE) in SSNMR spectra. Fine structure, not predicted by second-order perturbation theory, has been observed in the (185/187)Re SSNMR spectrum of NaReO(4) at 11.75 T, where the ratio of the Lar...

We report the application of our dc SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device) spectrometer [C. Connor, J. Chang, and A. Pines, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 61, 1059( 1990)] to nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) studies of aluminum-27, and boron-II in crystalline and glassy solids. Our results give eqQ /h = 2.38 MHz and 1] = 0.0 for a-A120 3 at 4.2 K. For the natural mineral petalite (LiAISi4 01...

Hybrid organic–inorganic lead halide perovskites have emerged as popular low-cost, solution-processable semiconductors owing to their outstanding optical and electronic characteristics. The structural characterization of these soft solids has proven challenging due increased dynamics static disorder. Nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) may serve a powerful tool for probing the local structure an...

We investigated microscopic lattice states in the donor-acceptor ionic Mott insulator, tetrathiafulvalene-bromanil (TTF-BA), by $^{79}\mathrm{Br}\text{\ensuremath{-}}$nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy to explore cross-correlated fluctuations between spin, charge, and lattice. A ferroelectric transition with dimerization is captured a NQR line splitting critical exponent $\ensurema...

We have observed multi-photon resonances in a system with a spin 3/2 irradiated simultaneously by a multiple pulse radiofrequency sequence and a low frequency field swept in the range 0-80 kHz. The used excitation scheme allowed us to measure the effective field of the radiofrequency sequence. A peculiarity of this scheme is that the intensity of the resonance lines decreases slowly with the mo...

NQR (nuclear quadrupole resonance) spectroscopy is potentially one of the best ways of characterizing the bonding of metal cations such as zirconocene cations and Ag to halogen donor atoms in weakly coordinating anions and neutral ligands such as halocarbons. Known coordination of organoiodine atoms to silver ions was studied by 1 NQR spectroscopy in [Ag(p-C<sH4I2)](P02F2), [Ag(o-C 6 H 4 I 2 ) ...