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JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE
Volume 124, Issue 2, Pages 357-364Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2006.04.004
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LiF : Mg, Cu, P; nanocrystalline material; thermoluminescence; TLD phosphor; high dose
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Nanocrystalline LiF:Mg, Cu, P of rod shape (about 30-40 nm in diameter and 0.3-0.5 mu m in length) has been prepared by the chemical co-precipitation method. Thermoluminescence (TL) and dosimetric characteristics of the nanocrystalline phosphor are studied and presented here. The formation of the material was confirmed by the X-ray diffraction (XRD). Its shape and size were also observed by transmission electron microscope (TEM). The TL glow curve of the nanocrystalline powder shows a single peak at 4 10 K along with four overlapping peaks of lesser intensities at around 570, 609, 638 and 663 K. The observed TL sensitivity of the prepared nanocrystalline powder is less than that of the commercially available Harshaw TLD-700H hot-pressed chips at low doses but it still around three times more than that of LiF:Mg, Ti (TLD-100) phosphor. The 410 K peak of the nanomaterial phosphor shows a very linear response with exposures increasing up to very high values (as high as 10 kGy), where all the other thermoluminesent dosimeters (TLD) phosphors show saturation. This linear response over a large span of exposures (0.1 Gy-10 kGy) along with negligible fading and its insensitivity to heating treatments makes the nanocrystalline phosphor useful for its application to estimate high exposures of gamma-rays. The 'tissue equivalene' property of this material also makes it useful over a wide range of high-energy radiation. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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