Luminescence properties of Ce-activated YAG optical ceramic scintillator materials
1997; Elsevier BV; Volume: 75; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0022-2313(97)00103-8
ISSN1872-7883
AutoresEugeniusz Zych, C. Brecher, A.J. Wojtowicz, H. Lingertat,
Tópico(s)Terahertz technology and applications
ResumoScintillation and luminescence characteristics of a highly dense transparent YAG: Ce-ceramic are reported and compared to those of a single crystal. When excited with gamma-rays both types of materials display the same dominant ≈85 ns decay, but the ceramic also shows a new rapid component of ≈20 ns that is completely absent in the single crystal. The scintillation output from the ceramic reaches about 50% of that from the single crystal, having been diminished by unusual loss processes caused by the deformed lattice at the grain boundary interfaces. A phenomenological model involving distortion of the band structure is proposed to explain the results of kinetic measurements.
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