Publications by authors named "Antonin Sojka"

We present field-domain rapid-scan (RS) electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) at 8.6T and 240GHz. To enable this technique, we upgraded a home-built EPR spectrometer with an FPGA-enabled digitizer and real-time processing software.

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We present a software solution developed in LabVIEW for a home-built High-Frequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (HF-EPR) spectrometer. A modular approach was applied to control the spectrometer subsystems and simplify the adaptation to hardware changes during the development. The solution implements measuring procedures for conventional Continuous Wave EPR (CW-EPR), Frequency-Swept EPR (FS-EPR), and Two-Dimensional EPR (2D-EPR) mapping, which are relevant in different cases.

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Article Synopsis
  • The text introduces a new 3D printed quasi-optical sample holder designed to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in high-field electron paramagnetic resonance (HFEPR) spectrometers, which do not use resonators.
  • The sample holder features an adjustable positioner and a rooftop mirror that help optimize the sample's position and microwave polarization, leading to improved isolation of co-polar signals by over 20 decibels.
  • This enhancement allows for rapid-scan EPR experiments to capture the full spectra of narrow-line radicals within milliseconds, facilitating real-time monitoring of changes in the sample's line shape.
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Nitroxide radicals are widely used in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) applications. Nitroxides are stable organic radicals containing the N-O˙ group with hyperfine coupled unpaired electron and nitrogen nuclear spins. In the past, much attention was devoted to studying nitroxide EPR spectra and electron spin magnetization evolution under various experimental conditions.

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Studying the properties of complex molecules on surfaces is still mostly an unexplored research area because the deposition of the metal complexes has many pitfalls. Herein, we probed the possibility to produce surface hybrids by depositing a Co(II)-based complex with chalcone ligands on chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-grown graphene by a wet-chemistry approach and by thermal sublimation under high vacuum Samples were characterized by high-frequency electron spin resonance (HF-ESR), XPS, Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and optical microscopy, supported with density functional theory (DFT) and complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF)/N-electron valence second-order perturbation theory (NEVPT2) calculations. This compound's rationale is its structure, with several aromatic rings for weak binding and possible favorable - stacking onto graphene.

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