Halite

Optical Spectra of Halite, NaCl

1940s

Ivey HF (1947) Spectal Location of the Absorption Due to Color Centers in ALkali Halide Crystals. Physical Review 72, 341-343.

1950s

Przibram K. (1953) Verfärbung und Lumineszenz. Beiträge zur Mineralphysik. Springer-Verlag, Wien.54
Przbram K (1954) Irradiation colours in minerals. Endeavour 37-41

1960s

Calhoun LHH, Kerr PF (1960) Blue Halite. Science 132, 1886-1887.
Doyle, W.T. (1960) Coagulations, Optical absorption and photoconductivity of colloidcentres in alkali halides. Proceedings of the Physical Society, 75, 649–663.
Howard CLH, Kerr PF.(1960) Blue halite. Science 132, 1886-1887.

1990s

Seinen J, Groote JC, Weerkamp JRW, den Hartog HW (1994) Radiation damage in NaCl. II. The early stage of F-center agregration. hysical Review B, 9787-9772.
Weerkamp JRW, Groote JC, Seinen J, dan Hartog HW (1994) Radiation damage in NaCl. I. Optical-absorption experiments on heavily irradiated samples. Physical Review B 50, 9781-9786.
Kreibig, U.,and Vollmer, M.(1995)Optical properties of metal clusters.Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany.
Sonnenfeld P (1995) The color of rock salt -- a review. Sedimentary Geology 94, 267-276.

2000s

Schwartz K, Volkov AE, Sorokin MV, Trautmann VC, Voss KO, Neumann R, Lang M (2008) Effect of electronic energy loss and irradiation temperature on color-center creation in LiF and NaCl crystals irradiated with swift heavy ions. Physical Review B, 78, 279024120.

2010s

Wesełucha-Birczynska A, Zelek S, Stadnicka K (2012) Blue halite colour centre aggregates studied by micro-Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction.VibrationalSpectroscopy,60 124–128.
Zelek SM,Stadnicka KM, TobolaT, Nowak LN (2014) Lattice deformation of blue halite from Zechstein evaporate basin: Klodawa Salt Mine, Central Poland. Mineralogy and Petrology, 108, 619-631.
Zelek SM, Wesełucha-Birczyńska A, Szklarzewicz J, Stadnicka KM (2015) Spectroscopic properties of halite from Klodawa salt mine, Central Poland. Mineralogy and Petrology, 109,45–51.
Arun T, Ram SS, Karthikeyan B, Ranjith P, Ray DK, Rout B, Krishna JBM, Sengupta P, Satyam PV (2017) Ion beam radiation effects on natural halite crystals.Nuclear Instruments and Methods B, 409, 216-220.

2020s

Calas G, Galoisy L, Geisler A (2021) Sodium nanoparticles in alkali halide minerals: Why is villiaumite red and halite blue? American Mineralogist 106, 838-842.