Materials Characterisation by Nuclear Quadrupole Interaction

Abstract

The power of solid state NMR to characterise solids by determining the nuclear quadrupole coupling of the constituent nuclei is demonstrated for a number of compounds of current interest in a materials science laboratory. Recent results are presented for the nuclei 17O, 23Na, 27Al, 39K, 71Ga, 91Zr, 93Nb, and 139La. These were derived using a variety of FT NMR techniques including static, magic angle spinning and frequency stepped spin echo NMR spectroscopy. © 1994, Verlag der Zeitschrift für Naturforschung. All rights reserved.