Excitation Transfer Engineering in Ce-Doped  Oxide Crystalline Scintillators by Codoping with  Alkali-Earth Ions

Auffray, Etiennette; Augulis, Ramunas; Fedorov, Andrei; Dosovitskiy, Georgy; Grigorjeva, Larisa; Gulbinas, Vidmantas; Koschan, Merry; Lucchini, Marco; Melcher, Charles; Nargelas, Saulius; Tamulaitis, Gintautas; Vaitkevicius, Augustas; Zolotarjovs, Aleksejs; Korzhik, Mikhail

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Auffray, Etiennette

Augulis, Ramunas

Fedorov, Andrei

Dosovitskiy, Georgy

Grigorjeva, Larisa

Gulbinas, Vidmantas

Koschan, Merry

Lucchini, Marco

Melcher, Charles

Nargelas, Saulius

Tamulaitis, Gintautas

Vaitkevicius, Augustas

Zolotarjovs, Aleksejs

Korzhik, Mikhail

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2018

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Abstract

Time-resolved spectroscopic study of the photoluminescence response to femtosecond pulse excitation and free carrier absorption at different wavelengths, thermally stimulated luminescence measurements and investigation of differential absorption are applied to amend the available data on excitation transfer in GAGG:Ce scintillators, and an electronic energy-level diagram in this single crystal is suggested to explain the influence of codoping with divalent Mg on luminescence kinetics and light yield. The conclusions are generalized by comparison of the influence of aliovalent doping in garnets (GAGG:Ce) and oxyorthosilicates (LSO:Ce and YSO:Ce). In both cases, the codoping facilitates the energy transfer to radiative Ce3+ centers, while the light yield is increased in the LYSO:Ce system but reduced in GAGG:Ce.