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The effect of rare earths (Nd3+, Er3+, Yb3+) additives on the radiation shielding properties of the tungsten oxide modified tellurite glasses

  • Ömer Kaban , Gülçin Bilgici Cengiz , İlyas Çağlar and Gökhan Bilir ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: August 20, 2024
Radiochimica Acta
From the journal Radiochimica Acta Volume 112 Issue 12

Abstract

In this study, we have reported on the effect of the rare earth oxides on the radiation protection performance of the tellurite glasses. In order to determine the effect of rare earth oxides on the radiation shielding properties of tungsten oxide (WO3) modified tellurite glasses, three rare earth element oxides (Nd2O3, Yb2O3, and Er2O3) have been selected. The glass systems have been synthesized using the traditional melt quenching method and were doped with the different amount (1 %, 3 %, 5 %) of the oxides of rare earth elements (Nd2O3, Yb2O3, Er2O3). The linear attenuation coefficient, mass attenuation coefficient, half value layer, and effective atomic number of the synthesized samples were experimentally measured for 662, 1,173 and 1,332 keV gamma-ray energies which were emitted from 137Cs and 60Co radioactive sources. Measurements were conducted in narrow beam transmission geometry using a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector. In addition, all these parameters were calculated theoretically using the WinXCOM program in the energy region of 0.015–15 MeV. The addition of different types and amounts of rare earth oxides to the tellurite glass system was found to significantly enhance the radiation protection performance of the glasses. In particular, it was found that the radiation shielding characteristics of the glasses improved with increasing amount of rare earth doping, the TWYb5 glass system had the best radiation shielding properties, and there was a trend among the doped rare earth oxides in the form of Yb > Er > Nd according to their radiation shielding performance.

Keywords: tellurite glasses; rare earth oxides; gamma radiation shielding; WinXCOM
Corresponding author: Gökhan Bilir, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Literature, Kafkas University, 36100 Kars, Türkiye, E-mail:

  1. Research ethics: Not applicable.

  2. Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Research funding: This study was financially supported by the Coordination Office of the Scientific Projects of the Kafkas University under the project number 2022-FM-65.

  5. Data availability: The raw data can be obtained on request from the corresponding author.

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Received: 2024-04-16
Accepted: 2024-07-29
Published Online: 2024-08-20
Published in Print: 2024-12-17

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Keywords for this article
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