# High performance Y1-xTbxTaO4 single-crystal scintillators for X-ray detection

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51774e44-3dfa-453f-b327-84763b8f712a

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## Created at

2025-01-16T01:17:11.809492Z

## Updated at

2025-01-16T04:20:07.929277Z

## Published at

2025-12-22T23:21:51.735833Z

## Doi

https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.5279

## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01391

## Date published

2025-01-15

## Recorded date published

2025-1-15

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accepted_manuscript

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## Title

- title: High performance Y1-xTbxTaO4 single-crystal scintillators for X-ray detection
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: 'In pursuit of a single-crystal scintillator that is free from toxic
    elements and has scintillation properties comparable to com-mercial CdWO4 in terms
    of light yield, afterglow, and stopping power, transparent and colorless Y1-xTbxTaO4
    mixed single crystals are grown by the floating-zone technique and investigated
    for the first time as scintillators. With the substitution of Y3+ by Tb3+, the
    intrinsic UV photoluminescence from YTaO4, stemming from the Ta-O complex, gradually
    decreases till only the intraionic Tb3+ emissions remain for a Tb concentration
    below 5%. The optimum scintillation performance is found for 15% Tb concentration:
    the light yield is ~ 1.5 times that of CdWO4, while the density, the stopping
    power, and the after-glow are comparable. For concentrations above 15% Tb3+, the
    quadrupole-quadrupole interaction is found to be responsible for the concentration
    quenching. These results demonstrate the potential of Y0.85Tb0.15TaO4 single crystals
    as an environmen-tally friendly alternative to CdWO4 '
  description_type: abstract
  lang: eng

## Creator

- name: Yueshen Zhou
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5327-9731
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  department: Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials/Optical Materials
    Field/Optical Single Crystals Group
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26
- name: Dongsheng Yuan
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-2272
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  department: Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials/Optical Materials
    Field/Optical Single Crystals Group
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26
- name: Encarnación G. Víllora
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8868-0028
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  department: Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials/Optical Materials
    Field/Optical Single Crystals Group
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26
- name: Takumi Kato
  role: author
  organization: Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- name: Daisuke Nakauchi
  role: author
  organization: Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- name: Noriaki Kawaguchi
  role: author
  organization: Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- name: Takayuki Yanagida
  role: author
  organization: Nara Institute of Science and Technology
- name: Kiyoshi Shimamura
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6502-8731
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  department: Research Center for Electronic and Optical Materials/Optical Materials
    Field/Optical Single Crystals Group
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26

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organization: American Chemical Society

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## Keyword

- subject: Single crystals
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- subject: Y1-xTbxTaO4
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- subject: Scintillator
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## Rights

- description: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work
    that appeared in final form in Crystal Growth & Design, copyright © 2024 American
    Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To
    access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.4c01391.
  identifier: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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- data_origin_type: other

## Embargo

start_date: 2024-12-23
end_date: 2025-12-23

## Journal

- title: CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN
  issn: '15287483'
  volume: '25'
  issue: '2'
  start_page: 359
  end_page: 366

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