HFMRF Instrumentation


Varian INOVA 800

The Varian 800 is an INOVA based spectrometer and an Oxford 18.8 T magnet with a 63 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of high resolution liquid and solid state NMR. There are 4 RF channels with waveform generators and pulsed field gradients. The wideline ADC's run at 5 MHz and the narrow ADC's have a maximum rate of 500 kHz. We currently have a 5 mm HCN probe with Z-gradient for liquids and a single tuned 5 mm MAS probe. Under construction are a 5 mm orthogonal powder probe optimized for low gamma nuclides, a 5 mm HX MAS probe (12 kHz spinning), and a 4 mm HXY MAS probe (25 kHz spinning).

Varian INOVA 750

The Varian 750 is an INOVA based spectrometer and an Oxford 17.6 T magnet with a 51 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of high resolution liquids, solid state NMR and µ-imaging. There are 4 RF channels with waveform generators and pulsed field gradients. The narrow ADC's have a maximum rate of 500 kHz. We currently have two 5 mm HCN probes (Z-gradient), an 8 mm HCN probe (Z-gradient), a 5 mm HCP probe (Z-gradient), a 5 mm HX MAS probe (10 kHz spinning) and a µ-imaging probe.

Varian INOVA 600

The Varian 600 is an INOVA based spectrometer and an Oxford 14.1 T magnet with a 51 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of high resolution liquid. There are 4 RF channels with waveform generators and pulsed field gradients. The narrow ADC's have a maximum rate of 500 kHz. We currently have a 5 mm HCN probe with Z-gradient and a 5 mm HX probe.

Varian Unity 600

The Varian 600 is an Unity based spectrometer and an Oxford 14.1 T magnet with a 51 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of high resolution liquid. There are 3 RF channels with waveform generators and pulsed field gradients. The narrow ADC's have a maximum rate of 500 kHz. We currently have a 5 mm HCN probe with Z-gradient and a 5 mm HX probe.

Varian Unity+ 500

The Varian 500 is an Unity+ based spectrometer and an Oxford 11.7 T magnet with a 89 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of solid state NMR, µ-imaging and small animal MRI. There are 3 RF channels with waveform generators. The wideline ADC's run at 5 MHz. We currently have a 5 mm orthogonal powder probe, 5 mm HXY MAS probe (15 kHz spinning), a 7 mm HX MAS probe (10 kHz spinning), an HX single crystal probe, a 1H CRAMPS probe, a micro-coil imaging probe, and a 40 mm imaging probe. Under construction are a combined µ-imaging and optical microscope probe and a static HX low temperature probe (2 - 300 K).

Varian/Chemagnetics Infinity 500

The Chemagnetics 500 is an Infinity based spectrometer and an Oxford 11.7 T magnet with a 51 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of high resolution liquid and solid state NMR. There are 3 RF channels. We currently have a 5 mm HCN probe, a 10 mm HX probe, and a 5 mm HX MAS probe.

Varian Unity+ 500

The Varian 500 is an Unity+ based spectrometer and an Oxford 11.7 T magnet with a 51 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of high resolution liquids NMR. There are 3 RF channels with waveform generators and pulsed field gradients. We currently have a 5 mm HCN probe with Z-gradient and a 10 mm HX probe.

Homebuilt/Tecmag 400

The homebuilt 400 spectrometer is based on homebuilt transmitter/receiver RF sections, a Tecmag pulse programmer and signal averager, and an Oxford 9.4 T magnet with a 89 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of solid state NMR. There are 2 RF channels and 4 MHz ADC's. We currently have a 5 mm orthogonal powder probe, a 5 mm HX static low temperature probe (3.8 - 300 K), a 7 mm HX static low temperature probe (4.2 - 400 K), a 10 mm HX DAS probe.

Varian/Chemagnetics Infinity 300

The Chemagnetics 300 is an Infinity based spectrometer and an Oxford 7.04 T magnet with a 89 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of high resolution liquid and solid state NMR. There are 3 RF channels. We currently have a 5 mm HX probe, a 10 mm HX probe, a 7.5 mm HX MAS probe, and a 5 mm orthogonal powder probe.

Varian Unity+ 300

The Varian 300 is an Unity+ based spectrometer and an Oxford 7.04 T magnet with a 89 mm room temperature bore. This system is capable of solid state NMR, µ-imaging and small animal MRI. There are 2 RF channels with wideline ADC's running at 5 MHz. We currently have a 7 mm HX MAS probe (10 kHz spinning), an HX single crystal probe, a 1H CRAMPS probe, a single tuned DOR probe, an HX 5mm low temperature MAS probe (35-300K, 12 kHz spinning), a 7 mm HX High temperature probe (-100 - 500°C, 7 kHz spinning), a microscopy probe and a 40 mm imaging probe.

Bruker Pulsed EPR/ENDOR/ELDOR Spectrometer

The EPR/ENDOR work focuses on the development and application of pulsed-2D methods for electronic structure and distance determinations in biological macromolecules and materials. The spectrometer consists of a Bruker 380E Pulsed EPR Spectrometer with pulsed ENDOR and has been modified to include pulsed ELDOR capabilities.