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Magnetic Resonance of Semiconductors and Their Nanostructures

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Abstract

We present a brief historical introduction to the field of pulse magnetic resonance (see, e.g., [1]). The first EPR phenomenon was observed by Zavoisky in 1944 [2]. In 1946 Bloch [3] and Purcell et al. [4] reported the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments.

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