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S&M2834 Research Paper of Special Issue https://doi.org/10.18494/SAM3692 Published: February 21, 2022 Scintillation Properties of Nd-doped LuVO4 Single Crystals [PDF] Masaki Akatsuka, Nakauchi Daisuke, Kato Takumi, Noriaki Kawaguchi, and Takayuki Yanagida (Received October 15, 2021; Accepted November 25, 2021) Keywords: scintillator, near-infrared, single crystals, high-dose monitoring
Nd-doped LuVO4 single crystals were synthesized by the floating zone method and their optical properties including scintillation were evaluated. The synthesized Nd-doped LuVO4 samples had a LuVO4 single phase. The 1.0% Nd-doped LuVO4 had the highest photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (87%) of all the samples in the NIR range. The Nddoped LuVO4 samples showed scintillation peaks around 900, 1060, and 1320 nm due to the electronic transition of Nd3+. Moreover, there was a strong correlation between the scintillation signal intensity and the X-ray exposure dose rate in the wavelength range from 900 to 1600 nm, and all the samples showed good linearity with a dynamic range from 0.006 to 60 Gy/h.
Corresponding author: Masaki AkatsukaThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Cite this article Masaki Akatsuka, Nakauchi Daisuke, Kato Takumi, Noriaki Kawaguchi, and Takayuki Yanagida, Scintillation Properties of Nd-doped LuVO4 Single Crystals, Sens. Mater., Vol. 34, No. 2, 2022, p. 619-627. |