We describe a home-built pneumatic shuttle suitable for the fast displacement of samples in the vicinity of a highly sensitive atomic magnetometer. The samples are magnetized at 1 T using a Halbach assembly of magnets. The device enables the remote detection of free induction decay in ultra-low-field and zero-field NMR experiments, in relaxometric measurements and in other applications involving the displacement of magnetized samples within time intervals as short as a few tens of milliseconds. Other possible applications of fast sample shuttling exist in radiological studies, where samples have to be irradiated and then analyzed in a 'cold' environment.
@article{arxiv.1401.6454,
title = {A fast pneumatic sample-shuttle with attenuated shocks},
author = {Valerio Biancalana and Yordanka Dancheva and Leonardo Stiaccini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.6454},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
3 pages and 3 figures; 2 additional pages (2 figures) as a supplemental material