Crystal growth and scintillation properties of NdF3 single crystal

✍ Scribed by Yuki Furuya; Noriaki Kawaguchi; Naoto Abe; Yuui Yokota; Takayuki Yanagida; Martin Nikl; Akira Yoshikawa

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 664 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0925-3467
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2010.01.012

✦ Synopsis

NdF 3 single crystal was efficiently grown from the melt by the micro-pulling-down (l-PD) method. The grown crystal had a single-phase confirmed by XRD and showed a highly symmetric peak by XRC. Then optical properties and a-ray excited scintillation properties in Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) wavelength region were investigated. It showed 60-80% transmittance down to 170 nm, and broad luminescence centered at 175 nm. The light yield and decay time of it were also evaluated under 5.5 MeV a-ray excitation ( 241 Am). The light yield was evacuated to be 60 ± 6 [Ph/5.5 MeV-a], and the decay time was also evacuated to be 6.9 ns under 5.5 MeV a-ray excitation.