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Rawat, N. S.; Kulkarni, M. S.; Tyagi, M.; Ratna, P.; Mishra, D. R.; Singh, S. G.; Tiwari, B.; Soni, A.; Gadkari, S. C.; Gupta, S. K. (RSSD;TPD)
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Journal of Luminescence, 2012. Vol. 132 (8): pp. 1969-1975 |
ABSTRACT
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Lithium borate (LBO) single crystals doped with Cu and Ag (0.25mol% each) (Li2B4O7:Cu,Ag) are grown by The Czochralski method. The thermo luminescence read out on Li2B4O7:Cu, Ag crystals showed three glow peaks at ˜375, 441 and 516K for the heating rate of 1K/s. The thermo luminescence sensitivity of the grown Li2B4O7:Cu, Ag single crystals is found to be 5 times TLD-100 and a linear dose response in the range 1 mGy to 1kGy. The glow curve deconvolution reveals nearly first order kinetics for all the three peaks with trap depths 0.77, 1.25 and 1.34eV respectively and corresponding frequency factors 1.6 x 109, 1.3 x 1013 and 6.8 x 1011 s -1. The continuous wave optically stimulated luminescence (CW-OSL) measurements were performed on the LBO:Cu, Ag single crystals using blue light stimulation. The traps responsible for the three thermo luminescence peaks in Li2B4O7:Cu, Ag are found to be OSL sensitive. The qualitative correlation between TL peaks and CW-OSL response is established. The photoluminescence studies show that in case of co-doping of Ag in LBO: Cu the emission at 370n min Cu states dominates over the transition sin Ag states implying doping of Ag plays a role as sensitizer when co-doped with Cu and increases over all emission.
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