scholarly journals Characterization of coincidence Doppler broadening and positron annihilation lifetime systems at INL

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. N. Taylor ◽  
T. F. Fuerst ◽  
M. Shimada
2005 ◽  
Vol 313 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 63-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.S. Yu ◽  
T. Suzuki ◽  
N. Djourelov ◽  
K. Kondo ◽  
Yasuo Ito ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 373 ◽  
pp. 274-279
Author(s):  
Bao Yi Wang ◽  
Jing Yang ◽  
Xing Zhong Cao ◽  
Long Wei ◽  
Run Sheng Yu

Positron annihilation technique is used to study the gamma irradiation effect on unplasticized PVC (UPVC). Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) results show that both the o-Ps lifetime and intensity decrease with the increase of gamma irradiation dose. By comparing Coincidence Doppler Broadening (CDB) results of four typical polymers using different reference sample, it is confirmed that CDB ratio curve can truthfully reflect the momentum difference of electrons which positrons annihilate with. The CDB results of gamma-irradiated UPVC using non-irradiated UPVC rather than commonly chosen LDPE as a reference sample show obvious oxygen peak, together with FTIR results, verify the appearance of carbonyl groups around the free volume.


2011 ◽  
Vol 699 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Mahuya Chakrabarti ◽  
S. Chattopadhyay ◽  
D. Sanyal ◽  
A. Sarkar ◽  
D. Jana

Positron annihilation technique is a well known technique to characterize the defects in a material. These defects can be identified by positron annihilation lifetime and coincidence Doppler broadening of positron annihilation radiation measurement. In this chapter we report the room temperature positron annihilation lifetime for single crystalline ZnO. From our study it is confirmed that the present crystal contains VZn–hydrogen complexes with low open volumes. Another important nuclear solid technique is the Mossbauer Spectroscopic technique which has been used to probe the local magnetic properties of a solid. Here we have summarized Mossbauer spectroscopic studies on ferrites.


2012 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Wagner ◽  
Wolfgang Anwand ◽  
Maik Butterling ◽  
Thomas E. Cowan ◽  
Fine Fiedler ◽  
...  

A new type of a positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) system has been set up at the superconducting electron accelerator ELBE [ at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. In contrast to existing source-based PALS systems, the approach described here makes use of an intense photon beam from electron bremsstrahlung which converts through pair production into positrons inside the sample under study. The article focusses on the production of intense bremsstrahlung using a superconducting electron linear accelerator, the production of positrons inside the sample under study, the efficient detector setup which allows for annihilation lifetime and Doppler-broadening spectroscopy simultaneously. Selected examples of positron annihilation spectroscopy are presented.


Membranes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaliy Pipich ◽  
Marcel Dickmann ◽  
Henrich Frielinghaus ◽  
Roni Kasher ◽  
Christoph Hugenschmidt ◽  
...  

The morphology of thin film composite (TFC) membranes used in reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) water treatment was explored with small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and positron-annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS). The combination of both methods allowed the characterization of the bulk porous structure from a few Å to µm in radius. PALS shows pores of ~4.5 Å average radius in a surface layer of about 4 μm thickness, which become ~40% smaller at the free surface of the membranes. This observation may correlate with the glass state of the involved polymer. Pores of similar size appear in SANS as closely packed pores of ~6 Å radius distributed with an average distance of ~30 Å. The main effort of SANS was the characterization of the morphology of the porous polysulfone support layer as well as the fibers of the nonwoven fabric layer. Contrast variation using the media H2O/D2O and supercritical CO2 and CD4 identified the polymers of the support layers as well as internal heterogeneities.


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