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S&M1856 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM.2019.2189 Published: April 22, 2019 Scintillation Properties of Yttrium-stabilized Zirconia Crystals Synthesized by the Floating-zone Method [PDF] Masaki Akatsuka, Daisuke Nakauchi, Noriaki Kawaguchi, and Takayuki Yanagida (Received November 30, 2018; Accepted March 25, 2019) Keywords: scintillation, ZrO2, single crystal, zirconia
We synthesized ZrO2 and yittria-stabilized ZrO2 crystals by the floating zone (FZ) method to evaluate their scintillation properties. Under excitation at around 250 nm, the photoluminescence (PL) emission peak appeared at around 450 nm. In the X-ray-induced scintillation spectra, an intense emission peak was also observed at around 450 nm in all the samples. The scintillation decay time profiles were approximated by a sum of two exponential decay functions, and the obtained value varied from 30–90 and 300–2230 ns depending on the composition.
Corresponding author: Masaki AkatsukaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Masaki Akatsuka, Daisuke Nakauchi, Noriaki Kawaguchi, and Takayuki Yanagida, Scintillation Properties of Yttrium-stabilized Zirconia Crystals Synthesized by the Floating-zone Method, Sens. Mater., Vol. 31, No. 4, 2019, p. 1289-1295. |