Scintillation Characterizations of Tin Doped Lithium Iodide Crystals at Room and Low Temperature

Sajid Khan; H. J. Kim; Y. D. Kim; M. H. Lee

doi:10.1109/TNS.2016.2530823

Scintillation Characterizations of Tin Doped Lithium Iodide Crystals at Room and Low Temperature

Sajid Khan, H. J. Kim, Y. D. Kim, M. H. Lee

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Abstract

The crystals of 0.02%, 0.05%, 0.1%, and 0.5% Sn doped LiI are grown by the vertical Bridgman technique. The luminescence and scintillation properties of the grown crystals are investigated. X-ray excited emission spectrum of LiI (Sn) showed a broad emission band between 400-650 nm wavelength range at room temperature. Such emission is attributed to Sn²⁺ ion. Scintillation properties such as energy resolution, decay time profiles, and light yield are measured under 662 keV (¹³⁷Cs) γ-ray excitation at room temperature. A maximum light yield of 6000 ± 600 ph/MeV is measured at room temperature. LiI (Sn) single crystals showed two exponential decay components under γ-ray excitation. The dependence of scintillation properties on the temperature is also presented. Changes in the decay time and light yield are measured from 295 K down to 10 K. The light yield of LiI (Sn) at 50 K is found to be nine times higher than that at room temperature.

Original language	English
Article number	7454857
Pages (from-to)	448-452
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	63
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2016.2530823
State	Published - Apr 2016

Keywords

Decay time
energy resolution
light yield
LiI (Sn)
scintillation properties
X-ray excitation

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