Microwave field effect

Valve metals are used in electronic components, such as tantalum capacitors, microwave field-effect transistors, gate materials, etc. 

Tra.nsitorAmplifiers. Most gaUium-based field-effect transitor amplifiers (FETs) are manufactured using ion implantation (qv) (52), except for high microwave frequencies and low noise requirements where epitaxy is used. The majority of discrete high electron mobiHty transistor (HEMT) low noise amplifiers are currently produced on MBE substrates. Discrete high barrier transistor (HBT) power amplifiers use MOCVD and MBE technologies. 

Another reason for interest in microwaves in chemical technology involves the fields of dielectric spectrometry, electron spin resonance (esr), or nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) (see Magnetic spin resonance). AppHcations in chemical technology relating to microwave quantum effects are of a diagnostic nature and are not reviewed herein. 

Most, if not all, microwave biological effects and potential medical appHcations are beheved to be the result of heating, ie, thermal effects. The phenomenon of microwave hearing, ie, the hearing of clicking sounds when exposed to an intense radar-like pulse, is generally beheved to be a thermoelastic effect (161). Excellent reviews of the field of microwave bioeffects are available (162,163). 

Figure 43. Microwave transmission in a two-mode resonator as a function of the magnetic field strength for measurement of the microwave Hall effect in FeS2 (two measurements with an offset difference).16...

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In Chapter 2, ENDOR (electron-nuclear double resonance) was briefly described. To perform an ENDOR experiment it is necessary to apply both a radiofrequency and a microwave frequency, effectively performing simultaneous NMR and ESR, respectively, on the sample. The experiment is performed at a fixed magnetic field, with the ESR saturating frequency centered on a... 

A major limitation of CW double resonance methods is the sensitivity of the intensities of the transitions to the relative rates of spin relaxation processes. For that reason the peak intensities often convey little quantitative information about the numbers of spins involved and, in extreme cases, may be undetectable. This limitation can be especially severe for liquid samples where several relaxation pathways may have about the same rates. The situation is somewhat better in solids, especially at low temperatures, where some pathways are effectively frozen out. Fortunately, fewer limitations occur when pulsed radio and microwave fields are employed. In that case one can better adapt the excitation and detection timing to the rates of relaxation that are intrinsic to the sample.50 There are now several versions of pulsed ENDOR and other double resonance methods. Some of these methods also make it possible to separate in the time domain overlapping transitions that have different relaxation behavior, thereby improving the resolution of the spectrum. 

The y-facior. The 0-factor takes into account the fact that the local magnetic field experienced by a particular atom in a molecule may not be the same as the applied field owing to the existence of local field effects. In the absence of such effects, g for any particular radical would simply have the same value as that of the free electron, 2.0023, and all radicals would come into resonance at the same applied field for a given microwave frequency. We can thus express the resonance condition (equation 2.173) as ... 

The first possibility is an increase in the pre-exponential factor, A, which represents the probability of molecular impacts. The collision efficiency can be effectively influenced by mutual orientation of polar molecules involved in the reaction. Because this factor depends on the frequency of vibration of the atoms at the reaction interface, it could be postulated that the microwave field might affect this. Binner et al. [21] explained the increased reaction rates observed during the microwave synthesis of titanium carbide in this way ... 

Titanium-containing zeolite was an efficient catalyst for oxidation of benzene with hydrogen peroxide in a microwave field, affording phenol with high selectivity. It was reported that microwaves had a strong effect on the selectivity of the reaction. 

Mechanistic details of the microwave-induced oligomerization of methane on a microporous Mn02 catalyst were studied by Suib et al. [67], with emphasis on fundamental aspects such as reactor configuration, additives (chain propagators, dielectrics), temperature measurements, magnetic field effect, and reaction conditions. 

The effect of microwave irradiation on the catalytic properties of a silver catalyst (Ag/Al203) in ethane epoxidation was studied by Klimov et al. [91]. It was found that on catalyst previously reduced with hydrogen the rates of both epoxidation and carbon dioxide formation increased considerably on exposure to a microwave field. This effect gradually decreased or even disappeared as the catalyst attained the steady state. It was suggested that this was very likely because of modification of electronic properties of the catalyst exposed to microwave irradiation. 

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ESEEM is a pulsed EPR technique which is complementary to both conventional EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy(74.75). In the ESEEM experiment, one selects a field (effective g value) in the EPR spectrum and through a sequence of microwave pulses generates a spin echo whose intensity is monitored as a function of the delay time between the pulses. This resulting echo envelope decay pattern is amplitude modulated due to the magnetic interaction of nuclear spins that are coupled to the electron spin. Cosine Fourier transformation of this envelope yields an ENDOR-like spectrum from which nuclear hyperfine and quadrupole splittings can be determined. 

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