Effects of melt aging and off-stoichiometric melts on CsSrI3:Eu2+ single crystal scintillators

• DOI: 10.1039/c6cp00271d
• Publication Date: 2016-02-26T14:03:18Z
• Authors: Yuntao Wu; Mariya Zhuravleva; Jesse Ashby Johns...; Hua Wei; Merry Koschan; Charles L. Melcher
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

In this work, the effects of vacuum aging of the melt (melt aging) and use of off-stoichiometric melts via introduction of excess CsI on the crystal quality and scintillation properties of CsSrI3:Eu2+, a promising scintillator for gamma-ray detection applications, are investigated.