Our Laboratories and Facilities in

HPSTAR, Beijing


High-field Superconducting NMR magnet systems


Oxford 9.28 T magnet 

  • 395 MHz Hydrogen frequency, 2.3 ppm field homogeneity, 2.3 hz/hr drift rate
  • double-channel REDSTONE spectrometer (Tecmag)
  • high frequency (100-600 MHz) RF amplifier, 500 W
  • low frequency (2-150 MHz) RF amplifier, 250W
  • several home-built room-temperature high-power NMR probes tailored for in-situ high pressure NMR in diamond anvil cells
  • home-build double resonance ultra-widebore probe for in-situ high pressure NMR in diamond anvil cells
  • Low temperature He-cryostat (4K) with home-built  high-power probe

Oxford 5.87 T magnet 

  • 250 MHz Hydrogen frequency, 1.7 ppm field homogeneity, 1.1 hz/hr drift rate
  • single-channel REDSTONE spectrometer (Tecmag)
  • full-range frequency (10-300 MHz) RF amplifier, 250W
  • several home-built room-temperature  high-power NMR probes tailored for in-situ high pressure NMR in diamond anvil cells

Bruker Avance III  400 and 600 systems

  • Fully commercial, standard NMR spectrometer systems 
  • 400 and 600 MHz hydrogen frequencies
  • numerous high-power NMR probes for static, MAS and imaging applications
  • not compatible with in-situ high-pressure NMR experiments

Electromagnets, low-field NMR systems


0-1.4 Tesla Q-Band Electromagnets

  • Three 1.4 Tesla, sweepable electromagnets for low-field NMR (up to 60 MHz hydrogen frequencies) and Electron spin resonance experiments
  • Two single-channel REDSTONE (Tecmag, up to 150 MHz, 250W) NMR spectrometer
  • several home-built room-temperature high-power NMR probes tailored for in-situ high pressure NMR in diamond anvil cells
  • CO2 and IR laser heating system for in-situ high-pressure NMR experiments (to be installed)

High-pressure NMR workshops


  • Three fully equipped workshops for the preparation of diamond anvil cells for NMR experiments