NMR-on-a-chip transceivers for ultra-sensitive multinuclear NMR (A04)

• Subject Area: Electronic Semiconductors, Components and Circuits, Integrated Systems, Sensor Technology, Theoretical Electrical Engineering
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 454252029

Project A04 deals with the investigation and the proof-of-concept design of transceivers for broad-band, heteronuclear, yet very sensitive NMR experiments (X-nuclei NMR). Here, we will both in-vestigate truly broadband concepts that altogether avoid frequency selective elements in the NMR frontend, in principle, allowing for concurrent X-nuclei NMR experiments and electronically tuned (but not impedance matched) frontends that allow for time-multiplexed X-nuclei NMR. Both re-search paths make use of chip-integrated, in-field NMR transceivers, which enable the new broad-band topologies investigated in this project. The project directly caters to the overarching CRC goals of miniaturization and throughput enhancement. The resulting lab prototypes of project A04 will be of great use in several other CRC projects (e. g. B02, C02, and C04). Project A04 will re-ceiver crucial input from project C01 in the form of customly optimized pulse sequences.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1527: High Performance Compact Magnetic Resonance – HyPERiON
• Applicant Institution: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Jens Anders