SUSPENDED SUBSTRATE CIRCUITS AND NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE PROBES UTILIZING SAME

摘要

A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) probe circuit assembly includes one or more probe circuits in signal communication with one or more respective sample coils configured for transmitting and/or receiving radio-frequency (RF) energy to and/or from a sample of interest. One or more of the probe circuits have a suspended substrate configuration in which variable capacitors share a common dielectric substrate that is separated from a ground plane by an air gap. Each variable capacitor includes an electrode that is movable by a user-actuated adjusting device. One or more of the probe circuits may have a multiply resonant or broadband configuration, and may have one or more individual channels. One or more of the variable capacitors enable tuning to resonant frequencies of selected nuclei. One or more other variable capacitors may enable impedance matching.