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Scintillation Response Enhancement in Nanocrystalline Lead Halide Perovskite Thin Films on Scintillating Wafers

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals of the formula CsPbBr(3) have recently been identified as potential time taggers in scintillating heterostructures for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) imaging thanks to their ultrafast decay kinetics. This study investigates the potential of...

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Autores principales: Děcká, Kateřina, Král, Jan, Hájek, František, Průša, Petr, Babin, Vladimir, Mihóková, Eva, Čuba, Václav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8746850/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35009964
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12010014
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Sumario:Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals of the formula CsPbBr(3) have recently been identified as potential time taggers in scintillating heterostructures for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) imaging thanks to their ultrafast decay kinetics. This study investigates the potential of this material experimentally. We fabricated CsPbBr(3) thin films on scintillating GGAG:Ce (Gd(2.985)Ce(0.015)Ga(2.7)Al(2.3)O(12)) wafer as a model structure for the future sampling detector geometry. We focused this study on the radioluminescence (RL) response of this composite material. We compare the results of two spin-coating methods, namely the static and the dynamic process, for the thin film preparation. We demonstrated enhanced RL intensity of both CsPbBr(3) and GGAG:Ce scintillating constituents of a composite material. This synergic effect arises in both the RL spectra and decays, including decays in the short time window (50 ns). Consequently, this study confirms the applicability of CsPbBr(3) nanocrystals as efficient time taggers for ultrafast timing applications, such as TOF-PET.