NDLI: Growth of bismuth tri-iodide platelets for room temperature X-ray detection

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Author	Fornaro, L. Cuna, A. Noguera, A. Perez, M. Mussio, L.
Copyright Year	2004
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Radiochemistry, Uruguay Univ., Montevideo, Uruguay (Fornaro, L.; Cuna, A.; Noguera, A.; Perez, M.; Mussio, L.)
Abstract	Bismuth tri-iodide synthesized from bismuth subcarbonate and potassium iodide, and then purified by zone refining followed by one sublimation, was used as starting material. Platelets were grown by physical vapor deposition (PVD) under argon (500 mmHg), with a source temperature of 300 /spl deg/C and during 5-7 days. Growth temperature was at about 260 /spl deg/C. Other set of platelets was grown by traveling molten zone (TMZ), at 460 /spl deg/C and with a traveling speed of 5 mm/h. Platelets are up to 20 /spl times/ 10 mm/sup 2/ in size, and from 50 to 80 /spl mu/m in thickness. Dendritic-like defects turned out to be the main surface defect for the PVD crystals. Some samples exhibit hexagonal microcrystals on their surface, which indicates that they grow from layers of hexagonal grains. Detectors were made with representative platelets by Pd or Au thermal deposition (contact areas of 0.03, 0.09, 0.12 cm/sup 2/), Pd wire attachment with aquadag and acrylic encapsulation. TMZ crystals show a better surface crystal quality, but this fact does not seem to particularly influence the detector electrical properties. Nevertheless, the metal used for contact deposition determines the resistivity, and Au emerges as better than Pd for this purpose. Detector X-ray response was measured by irradiation with a /sup 241/Am source of 3.5 mR/h. Resistivities up to 2.0 /spl times/ 10/sup 12/ /spl Omega/-cm were obtained, the best reported for detectors made with monocrystals of this material, which correlates with the fact that these detectors are the first BiI/sub 3/ ones that responds to an X-ray moderate radiation exposure. Platelets obtained in the present work give detector grade but not spectrometric grade material, for which energy resolution can not be calculated nor compared with previous results.
Starting Page	3541
Ending Page	3544
File Size	919149
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780382579
ISSN	10823654
DOI	10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352675
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-10-19
Publisher Place	USA
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Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Bismuth Temperature X-ray detection X-ray detectors Atherosclerosis Crystals Gold Contacts Conductivity Radiation detectors
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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