Quadrupole coupling parameters and structural aspects of crystalline and amorphous solids by NMR and NQR

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:7156545

Mao, Degen

NMR and NQR techniques were combined to obtain the quadrupole coupling constant (Qcc) and asymmetry parameter ({eta}) and extract structural information for several borate, gallate, and metavanadate compounds and glasses. {sup 71}Ga and {sup 69}Ga NMR was used to study crystalline {beta}-Ga{sub 2}O{sub 3} and several gallate glasses. Quadrupole parameters were acquired for GaO{sub 6} and GaO{sub 4} units in {beta}-Ga{sub 2}O{sub 3} by the computer simulation of the NMR powder patterns. A sensitive CW NQR spectrometer was built to detect NQR resonances below 2 MHz. The spectrometer includes a modified Robinson oscillator-detector, a new bi-symmetric square wave Zeeman modulator and a computerized data acquisition system. {sup 51}V (I = 7/2) NQR resonances below 850 kHz were detected for several metavanadates at both room temperature and liquid nitrogen temperature. Two methods, Zeeman perturbed NQR powder pattern and {sup 10}B NQR, can be employed to obtain both Qcc and {eta}. With a double coil tank circuit design, pure {sup 11}B NQR was used to determine the fraction of borons in BO{sub 3} and BO{sub 4} configurations in hydrated zinc borates. {sup 11}B NMR and NQR were also used to study lead borate glasses.

• Research Organization: Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7156545
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
AMORPHOUS STATE
BORON 10
BORON 11
BORON COMPOUNDS
BORON ISOTOPES
BORON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
GALLIUM 69
GALLIUM 71
GALLIUM COMPOUNDS
GALLIUM ISOTOPES
GALLIUM OXIDES
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
MAGNETIC RESONANCE
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
RESONANCE
STABLE ISOTOPES
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
VANADIUM 51
VANADIUM COMPOUNDS
VANADIUM ISOTOPES
VANADIUM OXIDES