Impact of non-ideal heat transfer on the determination of thermoluminescent kinetics parameters

Abstract The aim of this paper is twofold. The first is to present the results concerning the kinetic parameters of a recent preparation of MgB 4 O 7 which has a single well-defined peak. To determine the parameters, i.e., activation energy, E , frequency factor, s , and order of kinetics, b , by several different methods as the initial rise, the variable heating rates, the isothermal decay, the peak shape and the glow curve deconvolution methods. The second goal is to compare the results obtained using chips and powder and to put into evidence the thermal gradient effects on the kinetics parameters when using the variable heating rate.