Manganese precipitation in NaCl induced by room temperature X-irradiation

In the present paper, Electron Paramagnetic Resonance, Ionic Thermocurrents and photoluminescence (emission and excitation) measurements have been performed in crystals of manganese- doped NaCl which were exposured to room temperature X-irradiation. The results obtained indicate that the diffusion of the Mn²⁺ - cation vacancy dipoles, originally present in the quenched samples, is considerably enhanced by ionizing radiation leading to the formation of a second phase precipitate which appears to be related with the Suzuki phase of the manganese ions in the host NaCl, as revealed from the EPR and optical data.