Yasmim F. Amorim , Matheus C.S. Nunes , Alicja Chruścińska , Krzysztof Wiśniewski , Neilo M. Trindade
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Abstract
Linearly Modulated Optically Stimulated Luminescence (LM-OSL) analysis of alexandrite in powder form and incorporated with a polymer matrix was performed in order to investigate the components of its curves. LM-OSL curves were deconvoluted into four first-order components, and the behavior of their intensities revealed two traps’ pairs: super-fast component and fast component, and medium component and slow component, responsible for the LM-OSL signal of powder alexandrite. The thermal stability test showed that after 100 °C of preheat temperature, the super-fast component of alexandrite pellet vanishes. A luminescence spectrum collected under 470 nm stimulation indicated a photoluminescence process, suggesting electrons excitation can cause disturbance in OSL process when the luminescence is stimulated with blue LEDs due to its high energy photons.
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The journal seeks to publish papers that present advances in the following areas: spontaneous and stimulated luminescence (including scintillating materials, thermoluminescence, and optically stimulated luminescence); electron spin resonance of natural and synthetic materials; the physics, design and performance of radiation measurements (including computational modelling such as electronic transport simulations); the novel basic aspects of radiation measurement in medical physics. Studies of energy-transfer phenomena, track physics and microdosimetry are also of interest to the journal.
Applications relevant to the journal, particularly where they present novel detection techniques, novel analytical approaches or novel materials, include: personal dosimetry (including dosimetric quantities, active/electronic and passive monitoring techniques for photon, neutron and charged-particle exposures); environmental dosimetry (including methodological advances and predictive models related to radon, but generally excluding local survey results of radon where the main aim is to establish the radiation risk to populations); cosmic and high-energy radiation measurements (including dosimetry, space radiation effects, and single event upsets); dosimetry-based archaeological and Quaternary dating; dosimetry-based approaches to thermochronometry; accident and retrospective dosimetry (including activation detectors), and dosimetry and measurements related to medical applications.