M.L. Chithambo

TL;DR: Luminescence from quartz is commonly used in retrospective dosimetry, in particular for the dating of archaeological materials and sediments from the Quaternary period as discussed by the authors, which is related to the interaction of natural radiation with mineral grains, by the activation of and subsequent trapping of electrons at defects within the quartz lattice.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple sol-gel method using iron (III) nitrate nonahydrate (Fe(NO 3 ) 3 ·9H 2 O) as a precursor was used to synthesize α-Fe 2 O 3 nanoparticles of crystallite size between 3.9 and 9.5 µm.

TL;DR: In this paper, the activation energy of the main peak was determined as first order using various methods including the T m − T stop technique and the dependence of T m on irradiation dose.

TL;DR: In this paper, temperature related changes of luminescence lifetimes and luminance intensity, both evaluated from time-resolved luminance spectra recorded in the ‘fast, medium and slow’ component regions of quartz OSL, have been investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of time-resolved optically stimulated luminescence spectra has been studied on the theoretical basis of analytical methods and on methods for interpretation of the spectra and calculation of luminecence throughput.