title: Highly sensitive thermoluminescent carbon doped nanoporous aluminium oxide detectors.
abstract: In this work we present the synthesis, characterisation and the thermoluminescence (TL) response of nanoporous carbon doped aluminium oxide Al2O3:C produced by anodic oxidation of aluminium in organic and inorganic solvents. The X-ray and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) measurements reveal that the synthesised samples are amorphous and present highly ordered structures with uniform pore distribution with diameter of the order 50 nm. The photoluminescence and spectroscopic analysis in the visible and infrared regions show that the luminescence properties presented by the samples prepared in organic acid are due to carboxylate species, incorporated in anodic alumina films during the synthesis process. After an annealing treatment, part of the incorporated species decomposes and is incorporated into the structure of the aluminium oxide yielding a highly thermoluminescent detector (TL) . The results for X-ray irradiation in the range from 21 to 80 keV indicate a linear TL response with the dose in the range from 5 mGy to 1 Gy, suggesting that nanoporous aluminium oxide produced in the present route of synthesis is a suitable detector for radiation measurements.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Cidade Universitária, 50670-901 Recife, PE, Brazil. wma@ufpe.br
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: de Azevedo
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Khoury
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Oliveira de Jesus
mesh_terms: D000537:Aluminum Oxide / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects*; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008422:Materials Testing; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000528:radiation effects* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D010316:Particle Size; D016062:Porosity; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013819:Thermoluminescent Dosimetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon; D000537:Aluminum Oxide