Optimising broadband pulses for DEER depends on concentration and distance range of interest

Scherer, Andreas; Tischlik, Sonja; Weickert, Sabrina; Wittmann, Valentin; Drescher, Malte

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-1-59-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-1-59-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-1-59-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 1, issue 1

Research article

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12 May 2020

Research article |

| 12 May 2020

Optimising broadband pulses for DEER depends on concentration and distance range of interest

Andreas Scherer, Sonja Tischlik, Sabrina Weickert, Valentin Wittmann, and Malte Drescher

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Short summary

The determination of distance distributions in the nanometre range is an important application of pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. However, low sensitivity is often a major challenge. In this paper, we compare several broadband-shaped pulses and compare their performance to classical rectangular pulses in order to increase the sensitivity of double electron–electron resonance to a commercial setup. We show that improvements in sensitivity of up to 86 % are possible.