Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5497707 | Applied Radiation and Isotopes | 2017 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Pre- and postalpha-exposed PM-355 detectors were irradiated using UV laser with different number of pulses (100, 150, 200, 300, and 400). UV laser beam energy of 20Â mJ per pulse with a pulse width of 9Â ns was incident on an area of 19.6Â mm2 of the samples. XRD spectra indicated that for both reference and UV-irradiated samples, the structure is amorphous, but the crystallite size increases upon UV irradiation. The same results were obtained from SEM analysis. Optical properties of PM-355 polymeric solid-state nuclear track detectors were also investigated. Absorbance measurements for all PM-355 samples in the range of 200-400Â nm showed that the absorption edge had a blue shift up to a certain value, and then, it had an oscillating behavior. Photoluminescence spectra of PM-355 at 250Â nm revealed a decrease in the broadband peak intensity as a function of the number of UV pulses, while the wavelengths corresponding to the peaks had random shifts.
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Authors
S.S. Alghamdi, W.A. Farooq, M.R. Baig, M.S. Algarawi, Talal Mohammed Alrashidi, Syed Mansoor Ali, K. Alfaramawi,