Resolving the limitation of the peak fitting and peak shape methods in the determination of the activation energy of thermoluminescence glow peaks

An overview of the successes and failure of the computerized glow curve deconvolution (CGCD) and the peak shape methods in describing the glow peaks generated from the fundamental one trap-one recombination center (OTOR) model was discussed. Also, the existing method, and a new developed one, to test the applicability of the existing thermoluminescence (TL) expressions to describe the glow peaks were discussed. The new TL expressions deduced by Kitis and Vlachos ( G. Kitis, N.D. Vlachos, Radiat. Meas. 48 (2013) 47–54) were tested in the cases in which the other existing TL expressions failed. The results showed that the error in the calculated activation energy (E) using the existing expressions may reach up, in some cases, to 50%. While, using the new TL expressions, the error in the calculated E did not exceed 0.5%.