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block of lectures in one week

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History – Key persons/Experiments
- Zeeman effect
- Stern-Gerlach experiment
- First EPR experiment – Zavoisky
Motivation – impact of the method on society and overview of applications
Basic principles of Magnetic resonance (Intro to Andriy Marko course)
- Nuclear and Electronic Spin
- Magnetization and its manipulation
- Bloch equations
- Spin Hamiltonian – size of probed interactions
Difference between Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR or ESR)
Experimental arrangement
- Continuous wave experiments
- Pulsed experiments – T1 and T2 measurements, ES-EPR
- Field domain vs. Frequency domain
- High magnetic fields experiments
Basic examples
- EPR on radicals – hyperfine interaction
- NMR of coupled hydrogens – J-couplings
- 2D experiments
Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Gradient fields
- T1 and T2 weighted pictures
Detailed description of experimental technique
- RF and MW technology, active and passive components
- Generation of high power MW sources and MW cavities
- Generation of Magnetic Fields (resistive, superconducting, hybrids, pulsed field techniques)
Detailed description of individual experiments
- REFINE experiment
- HFEPR on Single Molecular Magnets – Fe4 example
- PELDOR experiments – deformation of DNA
Current trends in Magnetic Resonance
- Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) – enhancement of NMR signal
- More advance pulsed excitations in EPR – distance measurements
- Rapid scan ESR

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To give overall introduction to magnetic resonance techniques: NMR and EPR, its applications, experimental setups and currents trends in the field. The focus is more towards EPR/ESR. The lecture can be supported by practical courses on X-band spectrometer at CEITEC BUT (building C).

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Peter Atkins – Physical Chemistry (11th edition, Oxford University Press)
James Keeler – Understanding NMR spectroscopy (Wiley, also free online)
John A. Weil and James R. Bolton – Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Elementary Theory and Practical Applications (Wiley)
Arthur Schweiger and Gurnnar Jeschke – Principles of pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance (Oxford University Press) (EN)
A. Abragam and B. Bleaney – Electron paramagnetic resonance of transition ions (Oxford Classic Text) (EN)

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