JOURNAL OF RADIATION RESEARCH AND APPLIED SCIENCIES, cilt.16, sa.4, ss.1-5, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
In this research, magnesium oxide nanoparticles were produced through the chemical spray pyrolysis technique
by using magnesium chloride and deionized water at room temperature. Structural characterization of magnesium
oxide was carried out by x-ray diffraction system, the pattern confirmed that the prepared magnesium oxide
sample has a pure MgO phase with (2 0 0) orientation. Scanning electron microscopy images (SEM) showed that
the surface was covered by spherical and irregular shapes in different sizes on the nanoscale ranging between 50
nm and 100 nm. UV–Vis spectroscopy system was used to estimate the band gap energy; it was equal to 3.7 eV. In
addition, we investigated the thermoluminescence and dosimetric characterization of magnesium oxide by
studying the TL glow curve intensity. The results exhibited that the intensity of TL is increased with increasing of
absorbed dose as a function of the temperature. According to the obtained results, MgO is a promising material as
a TLD device.