Luminescence and scintillation properties of Gd3Sc2(Al3-xGax)O12:Ce (x=1, 2, 3) garnet crystals

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作者
Chewpraditkul, Warut [1 ]
Pattanaboonmee, Nakarin [1 ]
Chewpraditkul, Weerapong [1 ]
Sakthong, Ongsa [1 ]
Kim, Kyoung Jin [2 ]
Yoshino, Masao [2 ]
Horiai, Takahito [2 ]
Kurosawa, Shunsuke [2 ]
Yoshikawa, Akira [2 ,3 ]
Kamada, Kei [3 ]
Drozdowski, Winicjusz [4 ]
Witkowski, Marcin E. [4 ]
Makowski, Michal [4 ]
Kucerkova, Romana [5 ]
Nikl, Martin [5 ]
机构
[1] King Mongkuts Univ Technol Thonburi, Dept Phys, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
[2] Tohoku Univ, Inst Mat Res, Sendai, Miyagi 9808577, Japan
[3] Tohoku Univ, New Ind Creat Hatchery Ctr, Sendai, Miyagi 9808579, Japan
[4] Nicolaus Copernicus Univ Torun, Fac Phys Astron & Informat, Inst Phys, PL-87100 Torun, Poland
[5] AS CR, Inst Phys, Prague 16253, Czech Republic
关键词
Garnet crystal; Gd3Sc2(Al3-xGax)O-12:Ce; Light yield; Luminescence; Scintillation; LOW-TEMPERATURE THERMOLUMINESCENCE; SINGLE-CRYSTALS; CE3+; GROWTH; GA; AL;
D O I
10.1016/j.radphyschem.2021.109559
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The luminescence and scintillation characteristics of Ce3+ - doped Gd3Sc2(Al3-xGax)O-12 (x = 1, 2, 3) garnet crystals were investigated. The Ce3+ luminescence was blue-shifted with increasing Ga content due to the decrease of the crystal field strength. A decrease of Ce3+ luminescence intensity and luminescence decay time at high temperature was observed for all samples due to thermal ionization of the Ce3+ 5d(1) excited levels. With increasing Ga content the decrease of thermal activation energies, determined from temperature dependence of decay times, was obtained. Both Gd3Sc2Al2GaO12:Ce and Gd3Sc2AlGa2O12:Ce samples exhibited a comparable light yield (LY) value of 24,000 photons/MeV while the latter sample showed faster scintillation decay time of 12 ns (11%) + 56 ns (89%) with respect to those of 55 ns (28%) + 105 ns (72%) for the former sample. An acceleration of scintillation decay time with an expense of LY value was also obtained for the Mg2+-codoped sample. At low temperature a decrease of scintillation yield was observed in correlation with the intense thermoluminescence peaks, attributing to the localization of electrons at intrinsic shallow traps.
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