Abstract
Europium-doped barium and strontium iodide crystals are high light yield scintillator materials with excellent energy resolution. In this communication, BaI 2:Eu and SrI 2:Eu single crystals with space groups of Pnma ( D 2 h 16 ) and Pbca ( D 2 h 15 ) respectively were grown from the vertical Bridgman method. The crystals were investigated with polarized Raman spectroscopy at temperatures varied from 77 to 300 K. The observed Raman-active modes for each crystal were assigned with the help of group theory analysis. It is found that the absence of the site symmetry leads to splitting of a spectral line in Pnma structure into two lines in the Pbca structure. Structural defects including dark spots formed during crystal growth and new species produced from hydration were characterized.
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