Thermoluminescence of forsterite and fused quartz as a candidate for the extended red emission

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1591-1598

  Koike, C ^a   Chihara, H ^a,d   Koike, K ^b   Nakagawa, M ^b   Okada, M ^c   Tsuchiyama, A ^d   Aoki, M ^b   Awata, T ^e   Atobe, K ^e  

^a KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EMISSION; FORSTERITE; QUARTZ; SILICATE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 0036863917     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00813.x     Document Type: Article

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