A brief review of optical polymers in material engineering

A Kosmalska-Olańska, J Olszewski… - Express Polymer …, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Recently, there has been growing interest in materials that combine the advantages of glass
and polymer materials. Such a combination results in a kind of hybrid glass-polymer optics …

CR-39 nuclear track detector: An experimental guide

MA Rana - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research …, 2018 - Elsevier
The influence of preservation period of CR-39 detectors, in refrigerator and in the laboratory
atmosphere, on bulk etch rate is studied. The effect of etching solution usage time on the …

Studies of CR-39 etch rates

MA Rana, IE Qureshi - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2002 - Elsevier
A series of chemical etching experiments have been carried out on CR-39 detectors
irradiated with fission fragments of 252Cf to study the bulk and track etching characteristics …

Developing a radon monitor with less influence of humidity based on electrostatic collection method and CR-39 detector

Z Fan, T Hu, R Xie, F Lin, Y Mo, S Yuan, S Liu… - Radiation …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new radon monitor with a 50 mL hemispherical internal cell (Hynu EIRM) is designed to
develop a radon monitor with less influence of humidity based on electrostatic collection and …

Study of the optical properties of etched alpha tracks in annealed and non-annealed CR-39 polymeric detectors

AF Saad, NM Al-Faitory, RA Mohamed - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The UV–visible absorption spectra of virgin and alpha particle-irradiated, annealed and non-
annealed CR-39 polymeric track detectors were investigated using a UV–visible …

Modifications of the registration properties of charged particles in a CR-39 polymeric track detector induced by thermal annealing

AF Saad, NA Hamed, YK Abdalla, DM Tawati - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The thermal annealing behavior of alpha and fission fragment tracks, following exposure pre-
and post-annealing, in a high polymer material of poly allyl diglycol carbonate (PADC), a …

Influence of pre-exposure thermal annealing on etch rates of CR-39 nuclear track detectors: New findings

AF Saad, AT Gendya, MA Rana, YK Abdalla… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The influence of pre-exposure thermal annealing on CR-39 etch rates has been studied
here thoroughly. Annealing experiments were conducted on CR-39 detectors prior to their …

How to achieve precision and reliability in experiments using nuclear track detection technique?

MA Rana - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research …, 2008 - Elsevier
After carrying out exposures, thermal annealing and chemical etching experiments with solid
state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs) followed by analysis of experimental results for …

A parameterization of the chemistry-normality dependence of bulk etch rate in a CR-39 detector

MA Al-Jubbori - Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2016 - Elsevier
An empirical relationship describing the bulk etch rate is formulated. The equation involves
two free fitting parameters, which reproduce the bulk etch rate for CR-39 by alpha particles …

Studying some properties of CR-39 detector under the effect of different gamma doses

KM Thabayneh, MY Shoeib - Journal of the Association of Arab …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study the bulk etch rate, the bulk activation energy, the track density and the
degree of crystallinity percentage have been examined for gamma irradiated samples with …