Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1883643 | Radiation Measurements | 2014 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The dependence of LiF:Mg,Cu,P samples with various concentrations of Mg on sintering temperatures was investigated to find a new dosimeter. The influence of high sintering temperatures on LiF:Mg,Cu,P chips depends strongly on Mg concentrations. The height of the main peak versus the sintering temperatures exhibits a maximum, the position of which varies between 690 °C and 750 °C, depending on the Mg concentration in the range studied. The high temperature peaks of LiF:Mg,Cu,P for various Mg concentrations reduce basically when the sintering temperature is increased. LiF:Mg,Cu,P is much less sensitive than LiF:Mg,Cu,Si to sintering temperature. LiF:Mg,Cu,P with 0.6 mol% of Mg can be re-used at annealing temperature of 260 °C, regardless of the sintering temperature. It was found that the optimum concentration is Mg: 0.6 mol%, the optimum sintering temperature is 750 °C, considering that LiF:Mg,Cu,P with a low residual signal and good sensitivity can be re-used at annealing temperature of 260 °C and produced in a large scale. The new optimum LiF:Mg,Cu,P formation has 52 times higher than that of the TLD-100, and an extremely low residual signal of 0.07% without an initialization readout procedure.
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Authors
K. Tang, H. Cui, H. Fan, H. Zhu, Z. Liu,