PHOTOSTIMULATED LUMINESCENCE IN ALKALI-HALIDES INDUCED BY EXCITATION WITH IONIZING-RADIATION

Authors
NANTO H ENDO F HIRAI Y MURAYAMA K NASU S TANIGUCHI S NAKAMURA S INABE K TAKEUCHI N
Citation
H. Nanto et al., PHOTOSTIMULATED LUMINESCENCE IN ALKALI-HALIDES INDUCED BY EXCITATION WITH IONIZING-RADIATION, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 91(1-4), 1994, pp. 205-209
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear","Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Instument & Instrumentation
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms → ACNP
ISSN journal
0168583X
Volume
91
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
205 - 209
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-583X(1994)91:1-4<205:PLIAIB>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The photostimulated luminescence (PSL) phenomenon induced in copper-do ped sodium chloride (NaCl: Cu) and europium-doped potassium chloride ( KCl: Eu) phosphor crystals by excitation with ionizing radiation such as X-rays is studied. The emission mechanism of the PSL in both phosph or crystals is discussed in terms of the recombination of electrons op tically stimulated from the radiation-induced F centers with the lumin escence centers such as Cu2+ in NaCl and Eu3+ ions in KCl. The potenti ality of both phosphor crystals as a material for two-dimensional X-ra y imaging sensors utilizing the PSL phenomenon is also discussed.