Detecting and measuring UV radiation in different environments were goals that motivated a research conducted at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP), carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo (IF-USP).
By: José Tadeu Arantes, FAPESP Agency. Access the original article here.
“Aluminum oxide doped only with carbon (Al2O3: C) was already well-known for its high sensitivity to various types of radiation: X-rays, beta, and gamma. It is used in personal and environmental ionizing radiation dosimetry. What we discovered is that the material also responds to UV radiation when doped with magnesium in addition to carbon,” said Professor Neilo Marcos Trindade, the first author of the article. The investigation was conducted by Trindade and two undergraduate students, Maicon Gois Magalhães and Matheus Cavalcanti dos Santos Nunes, in collaboration with Professor Elisabeth Mateus Yoshimura from IF-USP and Professor Luiz Gustavo Jacobsohn from Clemson University in the United States. Learn more…
