An efficient algorithm for computerized deconvolution of thermoluminescent glow curves

Abstract

The models employed so far for deconvolving thermoluminescent glow curves are either derived by neglecting the interaction among traps and resorting to the quasi-equilibrium approximation, or are simply phenomenological. Several published articles have shown that the approximations are difficult to justify. Further it has never been shown that they are rigorously applicable to any known system. As to the phenomenological model it is no physically meaningful. An algorithm is reported which allows analyses of glow curves without the aforementioned approximations.