Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

Published in

American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 12(100)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.100.127601

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Silicon Microparticles

Journal article published in 2007 by A. E. Dementyev, D. G. Cory, C. Ramanathan ORCID
This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Published version: archiving allowed
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

We report record high Si-29 spin polarization obtained using dynamic nuclear polarization in microcrystalline silicon powder. Unpaired electrons in this silicon powder are due to dangling bonds in the amorphous region of this intrinsically heterogeneous sample. Si-29 nuclei in the amorphous region become polarized by forced electron-nuclear spin flips driven by off-resonant microwave radiation while nuclei in the crystalline region are polarized by spin diffusion across crystalline boundaries. Hyperpolarized silicon microparticles have long T1 relaxation times and could be used as tracers for magnetic resonance imaging. ; Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, published version