Luminescence properties of Tb3+-doped oxyfluoride scintillating glasses

Transparent oxyfluoride glasses doped with Tb3+ were prepared by melt quenching method. The transmittance spectra show the glasses have good transmittance in the visible spectrum region. The emission spectra under 376 nm light and X-ray excitations were recorded. Tb3+ doped oxyfluoride glasses show...

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Main Authors: Jia, S., Huang, L., Ma, D., Tai, Z., Zhao, S., Deng, D., Wang, H., Jia, Guohua, Hua, Y., Yang, Q., Xu, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6489
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Summary:Transparent oxyfluoride glasses doped with Tb3+ were prepared by melt quenching method. The transmittance spectra show the glasses have good transmittance in the visible spectrum region. The emission spectra under 376 nm light and X-ray excitations were recorded. Tb3+ doped oxyfluoride glasses show intense green emissions under both excitations. The optimum concentrations of Tb3+ ion are around 8 mol% and around 10 mol% under 376 nm light excitation and X-ray excitation, respectively. The lifetimes of 541 nm emission of oxyfluoride glasses doped with Tb3+ are in the range from 2.65 ms to 3.02 ms. The results indicate that Tb3+-doped oxyfluoride glasses could be an X-ray scintillating material suitable to X-ray detection for slow event. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.