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CAREER: Enhanced Sensing and Spectral Analysis for Zero-to-Ultralow Field Nuclear Magnetic — NSF Award to University of California

This research will advance a form of zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance (ZF NMR) detection spectroscopy for high-information chemical analysis. While conventional, high-field NMR spectroscopy typically relies on expensive, homogenous, superconducting magnets, in this approach, samples would be briefly polarized and

Award titleCAREER: Enhanced Sensing and Spectral Analysis for Zero-to-Ultralow Field Nuclear Magnetic
Award ID2544648
AwardeeUniversity of California-Berkeley
CityBERKELEY
StateCA
Amount obligated$575,078
Principal investigatorAshok Ajoy
ProgramChemical Measurement & Imaging
Start date05/01/2026
AbstractThis research will advance a form of zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance (ZF NMR) detection spectroscopy for high-information chemical analysis. While conventional, high-field NMR spectroscopy typically relies on expensive, homogenous, superconducting magnets, in this approach, samples would be briefly polarized and then measured in a shielded, near-zero-field environment using compact atomic quantum sensors, enabling a path toward low-cost instruments that could operate in parallel rather tha
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