Synthesis, Growth and Scintillation Properties of Large Size Bi4Si3O12 Crystals

doi:10.15541/jim20160061

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Using stoichiometric Si(OC₂H₅)₄ and Bi(NO₃)₃·5H₂O as precursors and citric acid as solvent, polycrystalline Bi₄Si₃O₁₂ (BSO) powders were synthesized by Sol-Gel method and sintered at high temperature. Batch production of 250 g powders was realized. Using as-synthesized BSO powders and <001>-oriented BSO seeds, BSO crystals were grown in the vertical Bridgman furnace. The crystallization behavior was discussed and high quality BSO crystal up to 30 mm × 30 mm × 210 mm was obtained. The scintillation characteristics of BSO single crystals were investigated. The energy resolution of the BSO crystal was 18.9% and the relative light yield of the crystal was 7.2% compared with CsI(Tl) at the same conditions.

Key words: Sol-Gel method, Bi₄Si₃O₁₂ crystal, vertical Bridgman method, crystal growth, scintillation property

CLC Number:

TQ174

XU Jia-Yue, WANG Jie, CHEN Wei, XIAO Xue-Feng, YANG Bo-Bo, WANG Zhan-Yong, LI Fei, XIE Hui-Dong. Synthesis, Growth and Scintillation Properties of Large Size Bi₄Si₃O₁₂ Crystals[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2016, 31(10): 1147-1150.

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Fig. 1 The transparent gel (a) and 250 g batch BSO powders (b)

Fig. 2 XRD patterns of the sintered BSO

Fig. 3 SEM images of the dried gel powders (a) and the sintered BSO polycrystalline (b)

Fig. 4 Photos of as-grown Φ28 mm crystal (a) and polished crystal up to 30 mm × 30 mm × 210 mm (b)

Fig. 5 Pulse height spectrum of the BSO crystal excited with 662 keV γ-rays from a 137Cs source (a) Energy resolution; (b) Relative light yield

Table 1 Scintillation properties of BSO crystals

Sample	Growth technique	Relative light yield	Energy resolution at 662 keV γ-rays/%	Reference
BSO	Bridgman	25	18.9	This work
BSO	Bridgman	20	31	[1]
BSO	Bridgman	25	22	[18]
BSO	Bridgman	23	18	[16]
BSO	Micro-pulling-down	21	33	[20]
BSO	Czochralski	26	22	[15]
BGO^a	Czochralski	100	16	[1]

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