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A computer controlled thermoluminescence reader with a ceramic heating plate

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A versatile system has been developed for the TL-reader of geological samples by using a personal computer system combined with a ceramic heater and a photon counting technique. A handy heater stack consisting of four ceramic heater plates was operated to ensure constant heating rate by applying phase-control circuit up to 400°C to a normal laboratory AC-power supply in order to obtain the TL-results as quantitatively as possible. From the results of the artificially irradiated quartz, a small amount of sample like 5 mg was verified to be applicable to obtain useful geochronological and geothermal information.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Ikarashi-ninocho, 950-21, Niigata, Japan

    T. Hashimoto, A. Koyanagi, K. Takahashi, K. Kimura & Y. Hayashi

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Hashimoto, T., Koyanagi, A., Takahashi, K. et al. A computer controlled thermoluminescence reader with a ceramic heating plate. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles 102, 455–464 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02047920

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