Lily Bossin
Luminescence characteristics of some common polyester fabrics: Application to emergency dosimetry
Bossin, Lily; Bailiff, Ian K.; Terry, Ian
Authors
Professor Ian Bailiff ian.bailiff@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
Dr Ian Terry ian.terry@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Abstract
A set of garment polyester-mix fabrics was tested for their potential suitability as surrogate dosimetry materials using optically and thermally stimulated luminescence techniques. A strong native blue-stimulated optically stimulated luminescence and thermoluminescence signal was observed with unirradiated samples, but this could be avoided by measurement of infra-red stimulated luminescence, and a sample of blue polyester-cotton mix fabric exhibited particularly high sensitivity to radiation dose. However, near complete fading at room temperature within several hours and rapid bleaching of the signal when exposed to daylight limit the deployment of this mode of measurement. The fading behaviour is critically dependent on the atmosphere in which the material is measured and on the storage conditions, where a reduction in oxygen significantly reduces the rate of fading. A cathodoluminescence study of the samples performed in a scanning electron microscope revealed complex emission spectra obtained with spatially integrated measurements and, in one fabric examined in more detail, the spatially resolved emission was found to vary in intensity and wavelength within the polyester fibre filaments which is likely to be associated with differences in crystallinity.
Citation
Bossin, L., Bailiff, I. K., & Terry, I. (2017). Luminescence characteristics of some common polyester fabrics: Application to emergency dosimetry. Radiation Measurements, 106, 436-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2017.05.017
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | May 22, 2017 |
| Online Publication Date | Jun 16, 2017 |
| Publication Date | Jun 16, 2017 |
| Deposit Date | Aug 1, 2017 |
| Publicly Available Date | Jun 16, 2018 |
| Journal | Radiation Measurements |
| Print ISSN | 1350-4487 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 106 |
| Pages | 436-442 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2017.05.017 |
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