Zhang 2006
Zhang 2006
Zhang 2006
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doi:10.1093/rpd/nci579 Advance Access published on April 27, 2006
The characteristics of thermoluminescence (TL) and optical stimulated luminescence (OSL) in undoped a-Al2O3 single
2.0
In this paper the characteristics of TL and OSL in
the undoped a-Al2O3 single crystals were studied. 1.5
The TL glow curves at various heating rates with
different filters in the TL reader were measured for 1.0
kinetic analysis. The dose responses of TL and OSL F+
in the undoped a-Al2O3 single crystals were also
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analysed and reported.
0.0
200 250 300 350
Wavelength (nm)
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9000
1
7500
6000 2
TL intesity (a. u.)
3
4
4500 5
6
8
10
3000 15 20
1500
0
50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Temperature (oC)
Figure 3. Experimental glow curves of undoped a-Al2O3 crystal for the heating rates from 1 to 20 C s1 with
U-340 filter.
function. A heating rate of 5 C s1 was used in the spectrometer is shown in Figure 1. The intensive
3-D spectral measurements. Before the emission 205 nm band owing to F-centre and the 230 nm
spectral measurements the samples were annealed bands owing to Fþ centre reported by
at 600 C for 15 min and then irradiated with 60Co investigators(1,2) are shown in Figure 1. The isomet-
gamma rays at 100 Gy. ric plot of TL emission spectrum of the undoped
a-Al2O3 crystal irradiated by gamma rays at 100 Gy
is shown in Figure 2. It is assumed that the emission
RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS peak at 210 C with 416 nm is due to the relaxation
of an electron from the excited 3P state to the 1S
Absorption and emission spectra
ground state in the F-centre and a sharp line with
The optical absorption spectrum of the undoped 695 nm owing to internal transitions of Cr3þ ions
a-Al2O3 measured with a UV-Lambda 900 (R lines)(6). However, the emission band at 320 nm
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þ
owing to radiative decay of F centre has not been It can be seen that the values of peak height as well
observed in the experiment. as peak area reduce with increase in heating rate
whereas the values of activation energy as well as
Heating rate dependence of TL characteristics frequency factor increase with increases in heating
rate. It is also shown in Table 1 that the values of
The TL glow curves of the undoped a-Al2O3 single geometrical factor(9) mg ¼ d/v remain unchanged in
crystals measured with a U-340 filter after irradi- the range of 1–20 C s1 heating rates (d ¼ T2 Tm,
ation of 0.12 Gy 90Sr beta rays in the range of o ¼ T2 T1, Tm, T1 and T2 being peak temperature,
1–20 C s1 heating rates shown in Figures 3 and 4 the temperature at the half intensity on the rising and
indicate that the glow curve measured with the falling sides of the peak, respectively).
U-340 filter (solid squares) at 5 C s1 heating The glow curves for different heating rates meas-
rate is well fitted by the first-order kinetic equation ured using the 7-59 filter instead of the U-340 filter in
(solid line) using PEAKFIT program. The kinetic the RisØ TL/OSL-DA-15B/C reader are shown in
120000
1
100000
TL intesity (a. u.)
80000 2
3
60000
4
5
6
40000 8
10
15
20000 20
0
50 100 150 200 250 300 350
Temperature (oC)
Figure 5. Experimental glow curves of undoped a-Al2O3 crystal for the heating rates from 1 to 20 C s1 measured with
7-59 filter.
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peaks from 170 to 280 C called high temperature undoped a-Al2O3 crystal irradiated by 90Sr beta rays
glow peak series. The peak heights of the low tem- at 1.2 Gy dose level measured and fitted by an OSL
perature glow peak series increase with increase in model with two optical active traps(10), in which the
heating rate, whereas the peak heights of the high OSL intensity is expressed as follows:
temperature glow peak series reduce with increase in
heating rate. It is indicated that the TL glow curves t t
IOSL ¼ I01 exp þ I02 exp , ð1Þ
are dependent upon the filter used in the readout t1 t2
equipment that is related to the emission spectra of
where I01 and I02 are the initial CW-OSL intensity
luminescence material. In addition, it is noticed that
at time t ¼ 0 for the first and second component,
the high temperature glow peak cannot be well fitted
respectively, whereas t1 and t2 are the decay
by one first-order kinetic glow peak but by two first-
constants. These parameters were obtained by fitting
order kinetic glow peaks shown in Figure 6. It is
experimental decay curves measured at various dose
presumed that the glow curves measured with a
1.4 1.4
1
1.2 1.2
Activation Energy (eV)
1.0 1.0
0.8 0.8
0.6 0.6
2
0.4 0.4
0.2 0.2
0.0 0.0
10-1 100 101 102
Dose (Gy)
Figure 6. Glow curves measured with 7-59 filter (solid Figure 7. Dose dependence of activation energy (Curve 1)
squares) at 5 C s1 heating rate. The solid lines stand for and geometrical factor (Curve 2) for undoped a-Al2O3
fitting curves of the first-order kinetic equation. crystal measured with 5 C s1 heating rate.
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230 10 7
OSL
210
10 5
200
10 4
TL
190
10 3
180
7
6
Dose responses R D0 (Gy) Smax (a. u.)
5
4
1 TL 0.72 69.9 6.35 104
3 OSL 1.0 60.0 5.61 106
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10 4
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