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Determination of vanadium in titanate-based ferroelectrics by INAA with discriminating gamma-ray spectrometry

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Instrumental neutron activation analysis was used for determination of vanadium mass fraction in crystals of incipient ferroelectric strontium titanate and ferroelectric barium titanate. In order to improve vanadium limit of detection, discriminating gamma-ray spectrometry was used by inserting an absorption filter between the samples and an HPGe detector. The use of the absorption lead filter 6-mm thick yielded improvement of the vanadium limit of detection by a factor of two. The vanadium mass fraction determined in a quality control sample, which was NIST standard reference material SRM 1648 Urban Particulate Matter, was in close agreement with the certified value.

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Acknowledgements

S. Kapphan and H. Hesse are acknowledged for providing the ferroelectric crystal samples. The work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (Grant No. P108/12/G108) and by Grant Agency of the Czech Technical University in Prague (Grant No. SGS16/244/OHK4/3T/14).

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  1. Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Řež 130, 250 68, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic

    Jan Kameník, Jan Kučera & Vladimír Strunga

  2. Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Trojanova 13, 120 00, Prague, Czech Republic

    Kateřina Dragounová & Zdeněk Bryknar

  3. Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 2, 182 21, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vladimir A. Trepakov

  4. Ioffe Institute, St-Petersburg, Russia, 194021

    Vladimir A. Trepakov

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Kameník, J., Dragounová, K., Kučera, J. et al. Determination of vanadium in titanate-based ferroelectrics by INAA with discriminating gamma-ray spectrometry. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 311, 1333–1338 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-016-5101-1

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