TSL/OSL/RPL automated and integrated measurement system (TORAIMS)

Abstract

Thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), and radio-photoluminescence (RPL) are radiation-induced luminescence phenomena, and they are widely used for radiation dosimetry today. Despite their successful applications, the R&D of conventional and new phosphor materials is still actively performed in a wide range of research fields from basic science to application. Although these phenomena are considered to be different, they share common physical processes such as the generation, trapping, and transfer of electronic charges. In order to have a deeper look into these phenomena, it is important to comprehensively characterize those of a single material. For this, we have constructed a prototype TSL/OSL/RPL automated and integrated measurement system (TORAIMS), and then the system performance has been studied. The system offers automated and integrated measurement of several different TSL, OSL, and RPL properties, and it is also designed to cover many different phosphor materials having a wide variety of spectroscopic properties.