Applicability of the Zimmerman predose model in the thermoluminescence of predosed and annealed synthetic quartz samples

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 267-274

  Pagonis, Vasilis ^a   Kitis, George ^b   Chen, Reuven ^c  

^a MCDANIEL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annealing; Kinetic rate equations; Quartz; Superlinearity; Thermoluminescence

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

KINETIC RATE EQUATIONS;

QUARTZ;

EID: 0038017164     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(03)00042-8     Document Type: Article

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