Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements with a Tunnel Diode Oscillator

Abstract

A tunnel diode oscillator is described which has been successfully used for paramagnetic susceptibility measurements at frequencies from 3 to 55 MHz, at temperatures from 1.2 to 77 K, and at magnetic fields up to 18 kG. In appropriate cases, such measurements may be used to infer magnetic specific heats and spin-lattice relaxation times.