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

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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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

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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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RC1: 'Comments to the manuscript of Andreas Scherer et al. Optimising broadband pulses for DEER depends on concentration and distance range of interest', Thomas Prisner, 09 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer comment', Andreas Scherer, 31 Mar 2020
RC2: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Mar 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer comment', Andreas Scherer, 31 Mar 2020
  - RC3: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Apr 2020

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AR by Andreas Scherer on behalf of the Authors (15 Apr 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Apr 2020) by Daniella Goldfarb

RR by Thomas Prisner (25 Apr 2020)

ED: Publish as is (26 Apr 2020) by Daniella Goldfarb

AR by Andreas Scherer on behalf of the Authors (29 Apr 2020)

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.