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Wu H, Wang Q, Zhang A, Niu G, Nikl M, Ming C, Zhu J, Zhou Z, Sun YY, Nan G, Ren G, Wu Y, Tang J. One-dimensional scintillator film with benign grain boundaries for high-resolution and fast x-ray imaging. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eadh1789. [PMID: 37506201 PMCID: PMC10381942 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh1789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023]
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Fast and high-resolution x-ray imaging demands scintillator films with negligible afterglow, high scintillation yield, and minimized cross-talk. However, grain boundaries (GBs) are abundant in polycrystalline scintillator film, and, for current inorganic scintillators, detrimental dangling bonds at GBs inevitably extend radioluminescence lifetime and increase nonradiative recombination loss, deteriorating afterglow and scintillation yield. Here, we demonstrate that scintillators with one-dimensional (1D) crystal structure, Cs5Cu3Cl6I2 explored here, possess benign GBs without dangling bonds, yielding nearly identical afterglow and scintillation yield for single crystals and polycrystalline films. Because of its 1D crystal structure, Cs5Cu3Cl6I2 films with desired columnar morphology are easily obtained via close space sublimation, exhibit negligible afterglow (0.1% at 10 ms) and high scintillation yield (1.2 times of CsI:Tl). We have also demonstrated fast x-ray imaging with 27 line pairs mm-1 resolution and frame rate up to 33 fps, surpassing most existing scintillators. We believe that the 1D scintillators can greatly boost x-ray imaging performance.
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- Haodi Wu
- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- Artificial Crystal Research Center, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
- Optics Valley Laboratory, Hubei, 430074, China
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- Department of Optical Materials, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Cukrovarnicka 10/112, Prague 16200, Czech Republic
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
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- Department of Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, Zhejiang, China
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- Artificial Crystal Research Center, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
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- Artificial Crystal Research Center, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
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- Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China
- Optics Valley Laboratory, Hubei, 430074, China
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Derbenyova NV, Burdov VA. Multi-carrier processes in halogenated Si nanocrystals. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:114304. [PMID: 32962396 DOI: 10.1063/5.0018514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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We study theoretically an effect of passivation with Cl and Br on Auger recombination and multiple exciton generation in silicon nanocrystal Si317X172, with X being the passivating element. The nanocrystal electronic structure and rates of these processes are calculated using time-dependent density functional theory. Comparison with the H-passivated Si nanocrystal shows that the bromine coating, despite having less electronegativity, affects the electronic structure and transition rates more than the chlorine one due to the stronger structural perturbations caused by the greater surface atoms. Certain electron-hole asymmetry in both of the considered multi-carrier processes is revealed for the Br-coated silicon nanocrystal: the processes become faster if initiated by holes and slower (or invariable on the whole) if initiated by electrons. On the contrary, the chlorine coating weakly influences the multi-carrier processes.
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- N V Derbenyova
- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 23 Gagarin Avenue, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation
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- Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 23 Gagarin Avenue, 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Federation
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Canham L. Introductory lecture: origins and applications of efficient visible photoluminescence from silicon-based nanostructures. Faraday Discuss 2020; 222:10-81. [DOI: 10.1039/d0fd00018c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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This review highlights many spectroscopy-based studies and selected phenomenological studies of silicon-based nanostructures that provide insight into their likely PL mechanisms, and also covers six application areas.
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- Leigh Canham
- School of Physics and Astronomy
- University of Birmingham
- Birmingham
- UK
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