Bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures
Highly efficient scintillation crystals with short decay times are indispensable for improving the performance of numerous detection and imaging instruments that use- X-rays, gamma-quanta, ionising particles or neutrons. Halide perovskites emerged recently as very promising materials for detection o...
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| author | Mykhaylyk, VB Kraus, H Kapustianyk, V Kim, HJ Mercere, P Rudko, M Da Silva, P Antonyak, O Dendebera, M |
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| description | Highly efficient scintillation crystals with short decay times are indispensable for improving the performance of numerous detection and imaging instruments that use- X-rays, gamma-quanta, ionising particles or neutrons. Halide perovskites emerged recently as very promising materials for detection of ionising radiation that motivated further exploration of the materials. In this work, we report on excellent scintillation properties of CsPbBr3 crystals when cooled to cryogenic temperatures. The temperature dependence of luminescence spectra, decay kinetics and light yield under excitation with X-rays and α-particles was investigated. It is shown that the observed changes of spectral and kinetic characteristics of the crystal with temperature can be consistently explained by radiative decay of free excitons, bound and trapped excitons as well as electron-hole pairs originating from their disintegration. It has been found that the crystal exhibits a fast decay time constant of 1 ns at 7 K. The scintillation light yield of CsPbBr3 at 7 K is assessed to be 50,000 ± 10,000 ph/MeV at excitation with 12 keV X-rays and 109,000 ± 22,000 ph/MeV at excitation with α-particles of 241Am. This finding places CsPbBr3 in an excellent position for the development of a new generation of cryogenic, efficient scintillation detectors with nanosecond response time, marking a step-change in opportunities for scintillator-based applications.
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b3a435ba-3724-4fe1-bbcf-57b9f306c1622022-03-27T04:20:43ZBright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperaturesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b3a435ba-3724-4fe1-bbcf-57b9f306c162EnglishSymplectic ElementsNature Research2020Mykhaylyk, VBKraus, HKapustianyk, VKim, HJMercere, PRudko, MDa Silva, PAntonyak, ODendebera, MHighly efficient scintillation crystals with short decay times are indispensable for improving the performance of numerous detection and imaging instruments that use- X-rays, gamma-quanta, ionising particles or neutrons. Halide perovskites emerged recently as very promising materials for detection of ionising radiation that motivated further exploration of the materials. In this work, we report on excellent scintillation properties of CsPbBr3 crystals when cooled to cryogenic temperatures. The temperature dependence of luminescence spectra, decay kinetics and light yield under excitation with X-rays and α-particles was investigated. It is shown that the observed changes of spectral and kinetic characteristics of the crystal with temperature can be consistently explained by radiative decay of free excitons, bound and trapped excitons as well as electron-hole pairs originating from their disintegration. It has been found that the crystal exhibits a fast decay time constant of 1 ns at 7 K. The scintillation light yield of CsPbBr3 at 7 K is assessed to be 50,000 ± 10,000 ph/MeV at excitation with 12 keV X-rays and 109,000 ± 22,000 ph/MeV at excitation with α-particles of 241Am. This finding places CsPbBr3 in an excellent position for the development of a new generation of cryogenic, efficient scintillation detectors with nanosecond response time, marking a step-change in opportunities for scintillator-based applications. |
| spellingShingle | Mykhaylyk, VB Kraus, H Kapustianyk, V Kim, HJ Mercere, P Rudko, M Da Silva, P Antonyak, O Dendebera, M Bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures |
| title | Bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures |
| title_full | Bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures |
| title_fullStr | Bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures |
| title_short | Bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite CsPbBr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures |
| title_sort | bright and fast scintillations of an inorganic halide perovskite cspbbr3 crystal at cryogenic temperatures |
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