Abstract
The research for new scintillator materials with improved properties is gaining growing interest due to their wide variety of applications, including medical diagnosis. Here, radioluminescence studies under synchrotron X-ray excitation of bulk single crystals of type III Ce:KGd(PO3)4 and Pr:KGd(PO3)4 (Ce:KGdP and Pr:KGdP) with high crystalline quality have been carried out. The X-ray excited radioluminescence spectra show emission bands corresponding to 5d1 → 4f electronic transitions of Ce3+ and of Pr3+ in type III KGdP, being of great interest for scintillation applications. In the case of Ce:KGdP crystals, the absence of the 6PJ → 8S7/2 transitions of Gd3+ (~312 nm) can be ascribed to an efficient energy transfer from Gd3+ to Ce3+. In undoped and Pr3+-doped KGdP crystals, a change in coloration in the irradiated regions was observed after prolonged X-ray irradiation, which could be related to the presence of color centers.
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