Thermoluminescence characteristics of quartz implanted by nickel ion

The implantation of artificial quartz with nickel ion has succeeded in using a heavy ion accelerator. The quartz with nickel ion is called ”nickel quartz“. The sensitivity of their thermoluminescence (TL) response to the beta radiation was decreased with the increasing of irradiating and heating times. Two TL characteristics have appeared: the sensitivity of TL response at lower temperature (ll0°C) peaks of the nickel quartz to beta radiation is higher than that of the pure quartz, this results from the Ni⁺¹ ion entering the quartz lattice; and a new peak appearing at 445°C may be related with both Ni⁺¹ and Ni⁺³.