Design and Experimental Validation of a SoC-FPGA-Based Compact NQR Spectrometer

• Published in: IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement Vol. 73; pp. 1 - 12
• Main Authors: Kachkachi, Noreddine, Gansmuller, Axel, Rabah, Hassan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 2024; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Subjects: Controllability; Digital signal processing; Electronics; Engineering Sciences; Experimental validation; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency ranges; Hardware; Hexamethylenetetramine; Instrumentation and Detectors; Instruments; Modules; Nuclear magnetic resonance; nuclear quadrupolar resonance (NQR) instrumentation; Nuclei (nuclear physics); Physics; Portability; Pulse duration; Radio frequency; Radio frequency interference; register transfer level (RTL) design; Registers; Sensitivity; Sodium nitrite; Software; Spectrometers; System on chip; system-on-chip field-programmable gate array (SoC-FPGA); NQR instrumentation; RTL design; Sensitivity; Experimental validation; SoC-FPGA

Nuclear quadrupolar resonance (NQR) is a radio frequency (RF) spectroscopy technique providing high-resolution molecular analysis of solid materials containing quadrupolar atomic nuclei. The NQR technique does not necessitate an external magnetic field and, therefore, permits a large number of appli...