Pulsed frequency measurements

During the attenuation measurements. Transducer 1 was excited with a narrowband tone burst with center frequency 18 MHz, see Figure 1 for a schematic setup. The amplitude of the sound pressure was measured at Tranducer 2 by means of an amplitude peak detector. A reference amplitude, Are/, was measured outside the object as shown at the right hand side of Figure 1. The object was scanned in the j y-plane and for every position, (x, y), the attenuation, a x, y), was calculated as the quotient (in db) between the amplitude at Transducer 2, A[x, y), and Are/, i.e., a(x,y) = lOlogm Pulse echo measurements and preprocessing... 

Trebino R and Kane D J 1993 Using phase retrieval to measure the intensity and phase of ultrafast pulses frequency-resolved optical gating J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 10 1101-11... 

In order to determine the thermal time constant of the microhotplate in dynamic measurements, a square-shape voltage pulse was applied to the heater. The pulse frequency was 5 Hz for uncoated and 2.5 Hz for coated membranes. The amplitude of the pulse was adjusted to produce a temperature rise of 50 °C. The temperature sensor was fed from a constant-current source, and the voltage drop across the temperature sensor was amplified with an operational amplifier. The dynamic response of the temperature sensor was recorded by an oscilloscope. The thermal time constant was calculated from these data with a curve fit using Eq. (3.29). As already mentioned in the context of Eq. (3.37), self-heating occurs with a resistive heater, so that the thermal time constant has to be determined during the cooHng cycle. 

The two main techniques for measuring electrode losses are current interrupt and impedance spectroscopy. When applied between cathode and anode, these techniques allow one to separate the electrode losses from the electrolyte losses due to the fact that most of the electrode losses are time dependent, while the electrolyte loss is purely ohmic. The instantaneous change in cell potential when the load is removed, measured using current interrupt, can therefore be associated with the electrolyte. Alternatively, the electrolyte resistance is essentially equal to the impedance at high frequency, measured in impedance spectroscopy. Because current-interrupt is simply the pulse analogue to impedance spectroscopy, the two techniques, in theory, provide exactly the same information. However, because it is difficult to make a perfect step change in the load, we have found impedance spectroscopy much easier to use and interpret. 

A description of a fast laser photolysis experimental arrangement has been given by Porter and Topp who used a 1.5 Joule, 20nsec ruby giant pulse, frequency doubled in ADP, to measure singlet lifetimes in phenantrene, pyrene and other organic molecules. 

Four-pulse DEER measurements were performed on a dimer of copper-substituted azurin molecules with a Cu(II)-Cu(II) distance of 26 A.27 Experiments were performed at 10 K with pulse lengths of 16 ns for ji/2 and 32 ns for p pulses and a 75 MHz difference between the frequencies of the pump and observe pulses. Analysis of the dipolar frequencies required consideration of orientation selection in both the pump and observe pulses because only a subset of the Pake pattern is represented in the Fourier transform of the experimental data. For this sample the orientation of the interspin vector relative to the g matrices of the two centres was known from high-field EPR. Dipolar modulation could not be detected for a second dimer with a copper-copper distance of 14.6 A.27... 

A four-pulse DEER measurement of the distance between two tyrosyl radicals on the monomers that make up the R2 subunit of E. coli ribonucleotide reductase gave a point-dipole distance of 33.1 A, which is in good agreement with the X-ray crystal structure.84 Better agreement between the calculated and observed dipolar frequency could be obtained by summing contributions from distributed... 

For routine PFT NMR measurements, the pulse frequency is adjusted by changing the frequency of the transmitter until the CW spectrum of a reference sample with signals at both ends of the spectral width (e.g. acetone, Fig. 1.10) is reproduced exactly by Fourier transformation of the FID signal. 

The sonic speed used was longitudinal wave speed, measured using a pulse propagation meter (Model 4, H. M. Morgan Co., Cambridge, Mass.). Pulse frequency was 8-10 kHz. Transverse wave velocity was calculated from longitudinal wave velocity using the approximation... 

Figure 16 shows M(B0) curves for several pulse lengths, measured at v = 14 GHz. Two symmetrical dips are clearly visible at Bv = 0.491 T. They result from resonant absorptions of photons associated with ms =1/2 to -1/2 spin transitions, as indicated in the inset of Fig. 17. Typical measurements at other frequencies are also shown in Fig. 17.

Ad, Adc) for the dump pulse. Note that fitting Eq. (5.35) to the measured pulse frequency spectrum provides a means of obtaining Tx and cox from experimental data. 

The absolute frequency of the fundamental IS — 2S transition in atomic hydrogen has now been measured to 1.8 parts in 1014, an improvement by a factor of 104 in the past twelve years. This improvement was made possible by a revolutionary new approach to optical frequency metrology with the regularly spaced frequency comb of a mode locked femto-second multiple pulsed laser broadened in a non-linear optical fiber. Optical frequency measurement and coherent mixing experiments have now superseded microwave determination of the 2S Lamb shift and have led to improved values of the fundamental constants, tests of the time variation of the fine structure constant, tests of cosmological variability of the electron-to-proton mass ratio and tests of QED by measurement of g — 2 for the electron and muon. 

Plasma polymer layers were deposited in the same reactor as described before. However, in this case, the pulsed plasma mode was applied. The duty cycle of pulsing was adjusted generally to 0.1 and the pulse frequency to 103Hz. The power input was varied between P 100 ()() V. Mass flow controllers for gases and vapours, a heated gas/vapour distribution in the chamber, and control of pressure and monomer flow by vaiying the speed of the turbomolecular pump were used. The gas flow was adjusted to 75-125 seem and the pressure was varied between 10 to 26 Pa depending on the respective polymerization or copolymerization process. The deposition rate was measured by a quartz microbalance. 

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