Timo O. Reiss

TL;DR: The application of these pulse engineering methods to design pulse sequences that are robust to experimentally important parameter variations, such as chemical shift dispersion or radiofrequency variations due to imperfections such as rf inhomogeneity is explained.

TL;DR: Broadband, constant phase excitation which tolerates miscalibration of RF power and variations in RF homogeneity relevant for standard high-resolution probes is chosen to illustrate the capabilities of the optimal control formalism.

TL;DR: Surprising gains in sensitivity are reported for one of the most commonly used experimental building blocks in NMR spectroscopy, and the relaxation optimized pulse elements that transfer maximum polarization between coupled spins are longer than conventional sequences.

TL;DR: Combining optimal control theory with a new RF limiting step produces pulses with significantly reduced duration and improved performance for a given maximum RF amplitude compared to previous broadband excitation by optimized pulses (BEBOP).

TL;DR: The first solid-state NMR experiments developed using optimal control theory are presented, demonstrating a gain of 53% in the efficiency for 15N to 13Calpha coherence transfer relative to the typically double-cross-polarization experiments.