Communications Materials (Jun 2020)

Lithium-doped two-dimensional perovskite scintillator for wide-range radiation detection

  • Aozhen Xie,
  • Chathuranga Hettiarachchi,
  • Francesco Maddalena,
  • Marcin E. Witkowski,
  • Michał Makowski,
  • Winicjusz Drozdowski,
  • Arramel Arramel,
  • Andrew T. S. Wee,
  • Stuart Victor Springham,
  • Phan Quoc Vuong,
  • Hong Joo Kim,
  • Christophe Dujardin,
  • Philippe Coquet,
  • Muhammad Danang Birowosuto,
  • Cuong Dang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-0038-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Two-dimensional lead halide perovskites have shown great potential as X- and γ-ray scintillators due to their high light yield, fast decay rate, and low fabrication cost. Here, their versatility is expanded by achieving, via Li-doping, α-particle/γ-ray discrimination and thermal neutron detection.