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J.J. van Blaaderen

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Intrinsic Scintillators

The Scintillating Search for and Exploration of Small Bandgap Scintillators

X-ray photon-counting detectors (PCDs) are a rapidly developing technology. Current PCDs used in medical imaging are based on CdTe, CZT, or Si semiconductor detectors, which directly convert X-ray photons into electrical pulses. An alternative approach is to combine ultrafast sci ...
Small bandgap scintillators have gained significant attention in recent years. Especially Cs4PbBr6 is an interesting material, mitigating the small Stokes shift-related problem of perovskites like CsPbBr3. In this work, optical and scintillation properties of Cs4PbBr6 single crys ...
Lead halide perovskites are reportedly a very promising group of materials for scintillation due to their fast sub-nanosecond exciton luminescence, small band-gaps, and high theoretical light yield. Unfortunately, they only show emission at cryogenic temperatures. In this work si ...
Currently only Eu2+-based scintillators have approached the light yield needed to improve the 2% energy resolution at 662 keV of LaBr3:Ce3+,Sr2+. Their major limitation, however, is the significant self-absorption due to Eu2+ ...
Ytterbium-doped LiYF 4 (Yb:YLF) is a commonly used material for laser applications, as a photon upconversion medium, and for optical refrigeration. As nanocrystals (NCs), the material is also of interest for biological and physical applications. Unfortuna ...

(BZA)2PbBr4

A potential scintillator for photon-counting computed tomography detectors

Due to recent development in detector technology, photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) has become a rapidly emerging medical imaging technology. Current PCCT systems rely on the direct conversion of X-ray photons into charge pulses, using CdTe, CZT, or Si semiconductor dete ...
In this work the scintillation properties of PEA2PbBr4 are studied as function of temperature, accessing the potential use of these materials for low temperature applications. The scintillation properties and mechanism have been studied using a combination o ...