New High Performance Scintillators Based on Re-Activated Insulator Materials

• Authors: A. Wojtowicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper we address the problem of the host-to-ion energy transfer in some RE-activated wide band gap materials excited by ionizing radiation. We argue that, despite the expected self-localization of holes, the dominant mechanism in efficient materials involves sequential trapping of both charge carriers (holes and electrons) by an activating RE-ion followed by a radiative recombination via the ion producing scintillation light. Selected experimental results are presented to illustrate how various energy transfer processes manifest themselves in the spectroscopy of scintillator materials. Experimental results combined with simple considerations are used to identify these RE-ions which are likely to act as hole or electron traps in tri- and difluorides, thus initiating the recombination sequence leading to efficient scintillation.

Keywords

EN

78.90.+t; 78.55.-m; 61.80.Ed; 29.40.-n

Discipline

• 78.55.-m: Photoluminescence, properties and materials(for time resolved luminescence, see 78.47.jd)
• 61.80.Ed: γ-ray effects
• 29.40.-n: Radiation detectors(for mass spectrometers, see 07.75.+h; see also 95.55.Vj Neutrino, muon, pion, and other particle detectors; cosmic ray detectors in astronomy)
• 78.90.+t: Other topics in optical properties, condensed matter spectroscopy and other interactions of particles and radiation with condensed matter (restricted to new topics in section 78)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 1996
• Volume: 90
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 215-222

Dates

published

1996-07

Contributors

author

A. Wojtowicz

• Institute of Physics, N. Copernicus University, Grudziądzka 5, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
• Chem. Dept., Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, USA

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.90.215