Fringe fields

It should be possible to achieve greater penetration into a load material using the fringing field of a slow-wave than can be achieved by plane-wave propagation (68). There are, however, no reports of practical appHcation of these principles. 

Fig. 4.4.3 Experimental set-up for the MRI investigation of Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille flow. The electrical motor driving the shaft, as well as the pump, are placed 7.3 m away from the scanner to avoid interference with the magnetic fringe field.

Fig. 4.20. Flight tube passing through the gap of the magnetic sector of a JEOL JMS-700 instrument seen from the ESA side. The shapes of the pole pieces of the yoke and the additional blocks around the tube are designed to minimize fringing fields. In addition the pole faces are rotated to increase the mass range.

Another problem is due to fringing fields. To reduce these defocusing effects at the entrance and exit of the field, the pole pieces of the yoke of the electromagnet generally have specially shaped edges (Fig. 4.20). 

NMR observes the chemistry of only the proton nucleus (though it can observe many other nuclei independently). This means that hetero and metallic chemistry cannot be observed directly. Thus, sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, and metals cannot be directly analyzed by NMR, though secondary correlations can be obtained from the proton chemistry of the sample. In combination with electron spin resonance (ESR) analyzers that can operate in the fringe fields of the NMR magnet the presence of paramagnetic metals and free radicals can be quantified. 

In a linear ion trap one of the most efficient ways to perform mass analysis is to eject ions radially. Hager [60] demonstrated that, by using fringe field effects, ions can also be mass-selectively ejected in the axial direction. There are several benefits for axial ejection (i) it does not require open slits in the quadrupole, (ii) the device can be operated either as a regular quadrupole or a LIT using one detector. A commercial hybrid mass spectrometer was developed based on a triple quadrupole platform where Q3 can be operated either in normal RF/DC mode or in the LIT ion trap mode (Fig. 1.24). 

The detector of GB-A-2260218 comprises a photo-responsive material and an array of planar antennae formed thereon which concentrate radiation in fringe fields at antenna edges and extremities interacting with the photo-responsive material. This structure allows the photo-responsive material to be formed thinly, which reduces volume-dependent generation-recombination noise with consequent increase in responsivity and detectivity. Furthermore, reduced element thickness allows higher element resistance. 

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