Temperature dependence of photoluminescence kinetics and scintillation properties of LuY2(Al5-xScx)O12:Ce (x = 1, 1.5, 2) garnet single-crystalline films

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Author list: Chewpraditkul W., Wantong K., Chewpraditkul W., Sakthong O., Kucerkova R., Beitlerova A., Nikl M., Strachotova D., Kucera M.

Publisher: Elsevier

Publication year: 2024

Volume number: 152

ISSN: 0925-3467

eISSN: 1873-1252

URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85192460488&doi=10.1016%2fj.optmat.2024.115506&partnerID=40&md5=52672e79eb6ca6042ef46ed3968668e2

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Abstract

The temperature dependence of photoluminescence (PL) kinetics and scintillation properties were investigated in LuY2(Al5-xScx)O12:Ce (x = 1, 1.5, 2) garnet single-crystalline films grown by the isothermal liquid phase epitaxy method. With the increase of Sc content, the Ce3+ 5d1 level was shifted to higher energy while the Ce3+ 5d2 level was shifted to lower energy due to the decrease in crystal field splitting of the 5d levels. Activation energy of thermal quenching, determined from temperature-dependent PL decay times, decreased with increasing Sc content. At room temperature, the decrease of light yield (LY) value with increasing Sc content is caused by the thermal ionization process. LuY2(Al4Sc)O12:Ce showed a LY value of 510 photons/MeV when excited by 5.5 MeV α-particles, which is ∼21 % larger than that of Lu2Y(Al4Sc)O12:Ce due to a smaller bandgap Eg of the former. © 2024 Elsevier B.V.

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Garnet, LuY2(Al,Sc)5O12:Ce