Nanocrystals of Metal Halide Perovskites and Their Analogues as Scintillators for X-ray detection

Nano Futures ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiwen Chen ◽  
Yunlong Li ◽  
Bo Zhao ◽  
Jun Ming ◽  
Dongfeng Xue

Abstract Scintillators are widely used for X-ray detection in various fields, such as medical diagnostics, industrial inspection and homeland security. Nanocrystals of metal halide perovskites and their analogues showed great advantages as X-ray scintillators due to their cheap manufacturing, fast decay time, and room temperature scintillation from quantum confinement effect. However, there are still many challenges unsolved for further industrialization. Herein, it is necessary to summarize the progress of scintillators based on nanocrystals of metal halide perovskites and their analogues. In first section, the scintillation mechanism and key parameters are outlined. Then, various nanocrystals of metal halide perovskites and their analogues used as scintillators are reviewed. Finally, the challenges and outlook are discussed. It is believed that nanocrystals of metal halide perovskites and their analogues are favorable for large-area and flexible X-ray detectors.

Nanophotonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhifang Tan ◽  
Jincong Pang ◽  
Guangda Niu ◽  
Jun-Hui Yuan ◽  
Kan-Hao Xue ◽  
...  

Abstract Metal halide perovskites have recently been reported as excellent scintillators for X-ray detection. However, perovskite based scintillators are susceptible to moisture and oxygen atmosphere, such as the water solubility of CsPbBr3, and oxidation vulnerability of Sn2+, Cu+. The traditional metal halide scintillators (NaI: Tl, LaBr3, etc.) are also severely restricted by their high hygroscopicity. Here we report a new kind of lead free perovskite with excellent water and radiation stability, Rb2Sn1-x Te x Cl6. The equivalent doping of Te could break the in-phase bonding interaction between neighboring octahedra in Rb2SnCl6, and thus decrease the electron and hole dimensionality. The optimized Te content of 5% resulted in high photoluminescence quantum yield of 92.4%, and low X-ray detection limit of 0.7 µGyair s−1. The photoluminescence and radioluminescence could be maintained without any loss when immersing in water or after 480,000 Gy radiations, outperforming previous perovskite and traditional metal halides scintillators.


Author(s):  
YingFeng Ruan ◽  
Pengju Guo ◽  
Zhiping Zheng ◽  
Qiuyun Fu ◽  
Rongda Zhou ◽  
...  

As a typical representative of all-inorganic lead halide perovskites, cesium lead bromine (CsPbBr3) has been regarded as the workhorse of next-generation room temperature X-ray detectors in recent years.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 681-688
Author(s):  
Sarah Deumel ◽  
Albert van Breemen ◽  
Gerwin Gelinck ◽  
Bart Peeters ◽  
Joris Maas ◽  
...  

AbstractTo realize the potential of artificial intelligence in medical imaging, improvements in imaging capabilities are required, as well as advances in computing power and algorithms. Hybrid inorganic–organic metal halide perovskites, such as methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI3), offer strong X-ray absorption, high carrier mobilities (µ) and long carrier lifetimes (τ), and they are promising materials for use in X-ray imaging. However, their incorporation into pixelated sensing arrays remains challenging. Here we show that X-ray flat-panel detector arrays based on microcrystalline MAPbI3 can be created using a two-step manufacturing process. Our approach is based on the mechanical soft sintering of a freestanding absorber layer and the subsequent integration of this layer on a pixelated backplane. Freestanding microcrystalline MAPbI3 wafers exhibit a sensitivity of 9,300 µC Gyair–1 cm–2 with a μτ product of 4 × 10–4 cm2 V–1, and the resulting X-ray imaging detector, which has 508 pixels per inch, combines a high spatial resolution of 6 line pairs per millimetre with a low detection limit of 0.22 nGyair per frame.


2008 ◽  
Vol 1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satchidananda Rath ◽  
Shinji Nozaki ◽  
Hiroshi Ono ◽  
Kazuo Uchida ◽  
Satoshi Khojima

AbstractTin-dioxide (SnO2) ultra-small nanorods (UNR) have been successfully synthesized using the novel micellar technique. From transmission electron microscopy, the average diameter and length of the UNRs are estimated to be 1.3 nm and 5.0 nm, respectively. The crystal structure of the SnO2 UNRs was found to be tetragonal from the glazing incidence x-ray diffraction. The optical band gap estimated from the absorption spectrum is blue-shifted by 1 eV from that of bulk (3.64 eV). The photoluminescence spectrum shows two groups of peaks each with several fine peaks, one in the wavelength range of 270 – 370 nm and the other in the range of 380 – 500 nm which are due to the strong quantum confinement effect.


2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (33) ◽  
pp. 13983-13988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wuqian Guo ◽  
Xitao Liu ◽  
Shiguo Han ◽  
Yi Liu ◽  
Zhiyun Xu ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (50) ◽  
pp. 6887-6890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongcheng Yuan ◽  
Sai Bai ◽  
Zhibo Yan ◽  
Jun-Ming Liu ◽  
Feng Gao

The ZnO/perovskite interface can efficiently catalyse the perovskite crystallization process even without thermal annealing.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangrong Jin ◽  
Tanghao Liu ◽  
Yuanzhao Li ◽  
Jiadong Zhou ◽  
Dengliang Zhang ◽  
...  

Quasi-2D metal halide perovskites are promising candidates for light-emitting application owing to their large exciton binding energy and strong quantum confinement effect. Usually, quasi-2D perovskites are composed of multiple phases...


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Zhou ◽  
Jiwei Ren ◽  
Jiawen Xiao ◽  
Lin Lei ◽  
Feiyi Liao ◽  
...  

Progress towards high performance X-ray detection and dynamic imaging applications, including nondestructive inspection, homeland security, and medical diagnostics, requires scintillators with high light yield, reasonable decay time, low cost, and...


2019 ◽  
Vol 115 (19) ◽  
pp. 190501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mykhailo Sytnyk ◽  
Sarah Deumel ◽  
Sandro Francesco Tedde ◽  
Gebhard J. Matt ◽  
Wolfgang Heiss

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