Pulse measurement

To emulate the operation of the FeRAM cell of the integrated circuit the measurement setup has to generate pulses of both polarities. The Shunt method as it is described in Section 3.2.2 is useful to exclude the influence of the sense capacitor and to reach high speed. 

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The function h(t) to be restored is the impulse response of the medium x(t) is the transmitted pulse measured by reflection on a perfect plane reflector, for example the interface between air and water and y(t) is the observed signal. 

In the use of piezoelectric crystals for stress-pulse measurements, it is convenient to describe the current pulse in terms of the initial current jump i for step loading based on Eq. (4.7) analogous to The piezoelectric cur-... 

Fig. 4.7. The dielectric permittivity of impact-loaded dielectrics can be determined from current pulse measurements on disks biased with a voltage V. The magnitudes of the normalized current pulse values shown for two crystallographic orientations of sapphire are linear change with applied strain (after Graham and Ingram [68G05]).

The peak-shaped response of differential-pulse measurements results in unproved resolution between two species with similar redox potentials, hi various situations, peaks separated by 50 mV may be measured. Such quantitation depends not only upon the corresponding peak potentials but also on the widths of the peak. The width of the peak (at half-height) is related to the electron stoichiometry ... 

For capacity measurements, several techniques are applicable. Impedance spectroscopy, lock-in technique or pulse measurements can be used, and the advantages and disadvantages of the various techniques are the same as for room temperature measurements. An important factor is the temperature dependent time constant of the system which shifts e.g. the capacitive branch in an impedance-frequency diagram with decreasing temperature to lower frequencies. Comparable changes with temperature are also observed in the potential transients due to galvanostatic pulses. 

For the investigation of charge tranfer processes, one has the whole arsenal of techniques commonly used at one s disposal. As long as transport limitations do not play a role, cyclic voltammetry or potentiodynamic sweeps can be used. Otherwise, impedance techniques or pulse measurements can be employed. For a mass transport limitation of the reacting species from the electrolyte, the diffusion is usually not uniform and does not follow the common assumptions made in the analysis of current or potential transients. Experimental results referring to charge distribution and charge transfer reactions at the electrode-electrolyte interface will be discussed later. 

The manner in which the RF pulse is applied is critical to NMR analysis. A very simplified pulse sequence is a combination of RF pulses, signals, and intervening periods of recovery, as illustrated in Figure 6.80. The main components of the pnlse sequence are the repetition time, TR, which is the time from the application of one RF pulse to the application of the next RF pulse (measured in milliseconds) and the echo time, TE. The repetition time determines the amount of relaxation that is allowed to occur between the end of one RF pulse and the application of the next. Therefore, the repetition time determines the amount of Ti relaxation that has occnrred. The echo time is the time from the application of the RF pnlse to the peak of the signal induced in the coil (also measured in milliseconds). The TE determines how much decay of transverse magnetization is allowed to occur before the signal is read. Therefore, TE controls the amount of T2 relaxation that has occnrred. 

Pulse Measurements. Comparison of 3-pulse PELDOR data for nitroxide biradicals with interspin distances of 15.4 to 24.0 A at X-band and S-band demonstrated the separation of nuclear hyperfine and dipolar interactions and the separation of contributions from dipolar and exchange interactions.20 However, the deeper nuclear modulation at S-band limits the options for interpulse spacings. The inability to observe dipolar modulation in a PELDOR experiment... 

Pulse measurements. A self-complementary RNA with 12 base pairs was spin labelled at uridine near the middle of the strand.83 Three-pulse PELDOR gave an interspin distance of 35 2 A, which is in good agreement with molecular modelling. For a shorter self-complementary RNA, dipolar modulation was not observed, which was attributed to aggregation or weak duplex formation. 

Multiple-pulse measurements were performed on both the LP and HP samples at 20° and — 80° C, and when no differences were noted, lower temperature measurements were performed only on the LP sample. Multiple-pulse spectra for the LP sample are illustrated in Figure 4 together with the eight-pulse spectrum of the reference used for the low-temperature measurements, Ca(OH)2. The lineshapes observed are quite broad, and the line center is a function of temperature. The line width was separated into three contributions by performing three related multiple-pulse measurements (I). These indicated that the main contributions to the linewidth came from both relaxation and second-order dipolar effects. The maximum possible field inhomogeneity Hamiltonian is estimated to be less than 16 ppm by this means, which indicates that the com-... 

Fig. 1 left FTIR spectrum (a) and 2D-IR spectrum (b) of the ground state for perpendicular polarization of pump and probe pulse. A broadband IR probe pulse measures the spectral change as a function of delay and frequency of a narrowband IR pump pulse (c). right time resolved absorption spectrum (d, magic angle polarization) and transient 2D-IR spectrum (e) recorded 20 ps after UV excitation. The T2D-IR spectrum was recorded with magic angle between UV-pump (500 fs, 5 iJ) and IR-pump polarizations and perpendicularly polarised IR-pump and probe beams, pulse sequence (f). 

Calculation of the isotherm can be done by the method of Cremer and Huber [7] for pulse measurements or by the approach of James and Phillips [8] for frontal analysis. 

Figure 5 shows the chromatograms of both carbons in the case of a pulse measurement with cyclohexane. 

Figure 3. High resolution proton NMR spectra of cheese, obtained by application of a Hahn spin echo pulse sequence with and without field gradient pulses. Measurements were performed on a Bruker MSL-300 spectrometer, operating at 300 MHz. The field gradient unit used with this spectrometer was home-built and the strength was calibrated to 0.25 T/m, using a 1-octanol sample for which the diffusion coefficient is known at several temperatures.

Figure 3.8 (a) Simplified pulse measurement setup and (b) typical signal rise times. 

Figure 17.16 Hysteresis pulse measurement of a single FeRAM cell capacitor (0.49 /um2 PZT)...

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