USE OF UNIVERSAL FUNCTIONAL OPTIMIZATION FOR TL GLOW CURVE ANALYSIS

The effective use of any TL instrument requires an efficient software package to be able to fulfil different tasks required by research and practical applications. One of the standard features of the package us ed at the NPI Prague is the application of the interactive modular sys tem Universal Functional Optimisation (UFO) for glow curve deconvoluti on. The whole system has been tested on standard glow curves using dif ferent models of the TL process (a single peak described by the Podgor sak approximation, first order kinetics and/or general order kinetics) . Calculated values of basic TL parameters (E and s) show a good agree ment with the results obtained by other authors. The main advantage of the system is in its modularity that enables flexible changes in the TL model and mathematical procedures of the glow curve analysis.