Thermoluminescence investigations in X-ray irradiated CaS phosphor

We report the thermoluminescence studies of X-ray irradiated CaS phosphor. The CaS phosphor was prepared by solid-state diffusion method and characterized by X-ray diffraction technique (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL) glow curves of X-ray irradiated CaS sample have two glow peaks at temperatures 100 and 130 °C. A reliable dosimetric study of a thermoluminescence material is based on good knowledge of its trapping parameters. The trapping parameters namely activation energy, order of kinetics and frequency factor associated with the prominent glow peak (130 °C) of CaS phosphor were calculated by using isothermal decay and glow curve shape (Chen's) methods.