Luminescent Properties of Polycrystalline Cerium-Doped Lutetium Pyrosilicate Powders

Single phase LPS powders with nanosize particles were synthesized by a sol-gel process. Temperature and calcination temperature dependence of luminescence of the synthetic LPS:Ce powders were investigated under vacuum ultraviolet (VUV)-UV excitation. Luminescence intensity of LPS:Ce powders increase with calcination temperature, but it reaches the maximum at 1250 °C. Decay time of the LPS:Ce powders also slightly increasing from 27.1 to 30.5 ns as calcining temperature elevating. Both of them attribute to improved crystallization of LPS:Ce powders. Total luminescence intensity of LPS:Ce powder calcined at 1350 °C for 2 h has no noteworthy variation as the temperature rising in temperature 30-260 K range, this luminescence stability suggests that LPS:Ce would also be a good scintillator for high energy radiation detection in low temperature condition with temperature variation.

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