Luminescence Materials as Nanoparticle Thermal Sensors

: The objective of this project was to create and study materials for temperature sensing in support of detonation studies using thermal luminescence (TL) technique. Commercial materials were investigated and the new TL materials were developed. The best candidate materials, specifically LiF, Li2B4O7, MgB4O7, and CaCO4, were tested under closed and open chamber detonation experiments in collaboration with the Naval Surface Warfare Center and DTRA. A mulitparametric analysis procedure was also developed to recover the temperatures from the TL data.