Thermal and thermoluminescence properties of LiF-BaO-P2O5 glass.

• The high LiF-content phosphate glass was obtained. • The fluorophosphate glass has high thermal stability. • The linearity of the thermoluminescence response was confirmed. The set of six fluorophosphate glasses were obtained to measure the effect of composition on their thermal and luminescence properties. It was found that the phosphate network can accept much more lithium fluoride as compared to silica and borate glasses. The differential thermal analysis study shows a significant increase of thermal stability and decrease of the crystallization with higher content of lithium fluoride. Simultaneously, a gradual increase in the intensity of thermoluminescence was observed as well as linearity of the thermoluminescence response. We correlated the observed effects with the structural changes based on fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]