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This research is to study the possibility of fabricated zinc borosilicate glass doped with neodymium trioxide (ZnO-B2O3-SiO2:Nd2O3) to be a new material candidate for TLD. TGA analysis is an analytical technique used to determine a thermal stability of materials and its fraction of volatile components by monitoring rate heat flow to and from a sample and the weight changes, as temperature is changed at a constant rate. Data obtained is used to determine temperature of transitions and melting points of substances. Glass Transition Temperature (Tg) for the glass TLD sample produced obtains are between 369.01 °C - 371.74 °C and maximum annealing and reading temperature are set to be 350 °C that are below the minimum Tg values. X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis has proven the samples fabricated are amorphous. Effective atomic numbers (Zeff) are in the range of 20.44-21.60. Glass TLD samples showed good linearity with TL response and faced 45.22%-59.37% fading after 30 days. Glass TLD samples also have been tested for their reproducibility ability for 6 cycles of annealing, irradiate and reading process and the reading showed a small range of different.

New type plasmonic sensitizer, titanium nanoparticles (Ti NPs) shown potential in enhancing photoluminescence of rare-earth ions (REIs) as doped into magnesium zinc-sulfophosphate (MZS) glass for optical to optic application. Here, neodymium ions (Nd3+)-doped MZS glass with Ti NPs inclusion gone heat treatment (HT) at 450°C for 6 and 12 hours in order to tune the NPs size and tailor their plasmonic strength. The sample was characterized using X-ray diffractometer (XRD), high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM), and photoluminescence (PL) spectrometer. Heat treatment (HT) grows Ti NPs with a mean size ≈ 16 nm. The SPR bands are probed around 585and 739 nm. The SPR band intensities change with HT duration. The NIR PL bands were perceived around 878 nm, 1050 nm and 1322 nm corresponding to 4F3/2→4I9/2, 4F3/2→4I11/2 and 4F3/2→4I13/2 transitions, accordingly. The PL transition 4F3/2→4I9/2 (878 nm) and 4F3/2→4I13/2 (1322 nm) is enhanced about 1.44 and 1.52 times respectively, after 12 hours HT. The results show that HT enhances PL through SPR amplification. These findings may be useful in developing solid-state lasers and optical materials.