Issue 46, 2022

Improvements in scintillation performance of Tl2LaCl5:5%Ce single crystals via Sr2+, Ba2+ and Ca2+ co-doping

Abstract

High detection efficiency for X- and γ-rays, the possibility for fast neutron detection, and other excellent scintillation performances of Tl2LaCl5 (TLC) make it a potential radiation detector for applications in space exploration, medical imaging, homeland security, radiation monitoring, and nuclear and particle physics experiments. We evaluated the luminescence and scintillation performance of pure TLC and TLC doped with 5 mol% Ce (TLC:Ce) and co-doped with 5 mol% Ce and 0.2 mol% Ba, Ca, and Sr crystals, separately (TLC:Ce,Ba, TLC:Ce,Ca and TLC:Ce,Sr). The effect of co-doping on the luminescence and scintillation performance of TLC:Ce is studied for the 1st time. The room temperature radio- and photoluminescence shows characteristic Ce3+ luminescence for the Ce-doped and co-doped TLC crystals. We found that the co-doped crystals show improvement in terms of light yield, while improvement in the energy resolution and non-proportionality is observed in TLC co-doped with Ce and Sr.

Graphical abstract: Improvements in scintillation performance of Tl2LaCl5:5%Ce single crystals via Sr2+, Ba2+ and Ca2+ co-doping

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Aug 2022
Accepted
15 Oct 2022
First published
18 Oct 2022

CrystEngComm, 2022,24, 8178-8185

Improvements in scintillation performance of Tl2LaCl5:5%Ce single crystals via Sr2+, Ba2+ and Ca2+ co-doping

A. Khan, P. Quoc Vuong, J. D. D, H. J. Kim, G. Rooh and N. T. Luan, CrystEngComm, 2022, 24, 8178 DOI: 10.1039/D2CE01124G

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