Characterization of CsI:Tl recrystalization after liquid phase deposition Ulrik Lund Olsen, Ph.D. student supervisors: H.F. Poulsen, S. Schmidt SCINT’07, Salem Winston, June
Aims of project Diffracted Beam Grain in Aluminum Sample Scintillator Mirror Microscope Lens CCD photons 540nm X-rays 50keV Submicron grains structure resolved at high energy (30-100keV) at fast kinetic low flux diffraction meassurements. fundamental relationship between scintillator thickness and resolution
Principle - Structured Scintillator CsI:Tl SiO2 Si
Electrochemical etching HF solution etches surfaces with positive donors Light induced donors are guided by an applied electric field Field determined by silicon resistivity and bias HF e R.L. Smith and J.D. Collins, J. Appl. Phys. 71, 8, R1 (1992)
Pore Structure 10µm 1µm SiO2
Pore Filling Process CsI:Tl powder on Silicon surface Sealed sample holder Tube furnace Controlled cooling rate
Bulk characterization Focused Ion Beam(FIB) milling 4µm 10µm Ions
Crystal characterization - EBSD Grain size Distribution Electron Backscatter Diffraction
Compositional characterization - Fluorescence Flourescence exited with 90keV synchrotron radiation: local (w/ focused beam) large lead(Pb) background Au Sn Kβ1Kβ1 Kβ1Kβ1 Kα1Kα1 Kα1Kα1 Kα2Kα2 fit
Compositional characterization - PIXE Particle induced X-ray Emission: 40keV protons bulk information (250µm penetration) global probe (2mm 2 beam)
Compositional characterization - PIXE manufacturers specs on as-received was 0.2 wt% (GB crystals)
Composition characterization - SIMS Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy: local information surface probing high compositional sensitivity (>ppm) uneven sensitivity to different species No.Ion CentMass CI 1I Cs ^203Tl Tl Cs_
Conclusion Multiple characterization tools needed textural information from high resolution EBSD absolute composition from PIXE meso-scale relative composition from x-ray induced fluorescence local composition – SIMS Thanks to: T. Martin (ESRF) V. Honkimaki (ESRF) M. di Michiel (ESRF) X. Badel (KTH) J. Linnros (KTH) N.B. Larsen (RISØ) J.C. Grivel (RISØ) C. Gundlach (ESRF) Funding: Danish Fundamental Research Foundation &