- Title
- Temperature dependence of optically stimulated luminescence of α-Al2O3: C, Mg
- Creator
- Kalita, Jitumani M, Chithambo, Makaiko L
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115708
- Identifier
- vital:34217
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2017.08.009
- Description
- Thermal assistance and thermal quenching are two independently acting thermodynamic phenomena that simultaneously affect the stimulation of luminescence. We have studied thermal assistance to luminescence optically stimulated from α-Al2O3:C,Mg. Since thermal assistance causes only a minor change in the luminescence intensity, measurements were made after the sample had been pre-exposed to stimulating light to reduce its intensity significantly, that is, in the slow component of its decay curve. The luminescence intensity was monitored as a function of measurement temperature between 30 and 130 °C. The intensity goes through a peak at 60 °C due to competing effects of thermal assistance and thermal quenching. The initial increase of intensity is attributed to dominant thermal assistance whereas the subsequent decrease of intensity is ascribed to dominant thermal quenching. The activation energy for thermal assistance was calculated for the main electron trap of an un-annealed sample as 0.324 ± 0.020 eV and in a sample annealed at 900 °C as 0.416 ± 0.028 eV. Implications of such differences in the value of the activation energy for thermal assistance are considered.
- Format
- 5 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Kalita, J.M. and Chithambo, M.L., 2017. Temperature dependence of optically stimulated luminescence of α-Al2O3: C, Mg. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 410, pp.16-20., Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms volume 410 16 20 November 2017 1350-4487
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- Elsevier
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