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Logic-controlled occlusive cuff system
An occlusive cuff system comprises a pressure cuff and a source of regulated compressed gas feeding the cuff through an electrically operated fill valve. An electrically operated vent valve vents the cuff to the ambient pressure. The fill valve is normally closed and the vent valve is normally open. In response to an external start signal, a logic network opens the fill valve and closes the vent valve, thereby starting the pressurization cycle and a timer. A pressure transducer continuously monitors the pressure in the cuff. When the transducer's output equals a selected reference voltage, a comparator causes the logic network to close the fill valve. The timer, after a selected time delay, opens the vent valve to the ambient pressure, thereby ending the pressurization cycle
Exciton-polaron complexes in pulsed electrically-detected magnetic resonance
Several microscopic pathways have been proposed to explain the large magnetic
effects observed in organic semiconductors, but identifying and characterising
which microscopic process actually influences the overall magnetic field
response is challenging. Pulsed electrically-detected magnetic resonance
provides an ideal platform for this task as it intrinsically monitors the
charge carriers of interest and provides dynamical information which is
inaccessible through conventional magnetoconductance measurements. Here we
develop a general time domain theory to describe the spin-dependent reaction of
exciton-charge complexes following the coherent manipulation of paramagnetic
centers through electron spin resonance. A general Hamiltonian is treated, and
it is shown that the transition frequencies and resonance positions of the
exciton-polaron complex can be used to estimate inter-species coupling. This
work also provides a general formalism for analysing multi-pulse experiments
which can be used to extract relaxation and transport rates
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