Structural, optical, and the effect of beta source (90Sr/90y) radiation on the thermoluminescence properties of the transition metal activated on lithium aluminum borate phosphor (Li3Al3(BO3)4:Mn)

Abstract

The activation of Lithium aluminum borate material with varying concentrations of transition metal of manganese was studied. The synthesis of the phosphor samples was achieved by employing the solid-state sintering technique. The study aimed to determine the structural property, optical property, and the effect of beta source (90Sr/90y) radiation on the thermoluminescence properties of the phosphor material. The analyzed structure of both doped and undoped samples was obtained to be from 52.17 to 67.13 nm as the crystallite size and 67.00 to 120.00 nm as the particle size respectively. The optical studies showed an increase in mole concentration of the doped samples resulted in an increase in absorbance and a decrease in the energy band gap from 4.45 to 4.00 eV. The thermoluminescence report measured showed that the Mn-doped sample on lithium aluminum borate has the most prominent peak at 78 oC (major peak) and 294 oC (minor peak) when exposed to radiation dose (90Sr/90y beta source) of 50 Gy. The acquired activation energy was resolved using some of the models which include the initial rise, deconvolution, and the heat rate techniques. The dose response was determined to be linear from the Mn-doped lithium aluminum borate.