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Growth, photoluminescence, lifetime, and laser damage threshold studies of 1, 3, 5-triphenylbenzene (TPB) single crystal for scintillation application

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The 1, 3, 5-triphenylbenzene (TPB) single crystal has been grown using slow cooling seed rotation technique. Optical transmittance of the grown crystal was obtained from UV–Visible analysis. The grown TPB crystal has good transmission in the entire visible region with a lower cutoff wavelength of 330 nm. The solubility of TPB material was determined using toluene as a solvent with different temperatures. The full width at half maximum is 18 arcsec, which indicates that the crystal is of good quality. The TPB crystal was excited (λexc) at 307 nm, and the corresponding emission (λem) has been observed at 352 nm. The laser-induced damage threshold (LDT) value of grown crystal is 1.25 GW/cm2. Third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility χ(3) is determined using the Z-scan technique as 3.07422 × 10–09 esu. The TPB crystal proves its suitability for scintillation applications and optoelectronic device fabrications.

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The authors gratefully thank SERB, New Delhi, India, for the financial support [Project Sanction No: EMR/2016/004848].

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    Manikandan Murugesan, Rajesh Paulraj & Ramasamy Perumalsamy

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Murugesan, M., Paulraj, R., Perumalsamy, R. et al. Growth, photoluminescence, lifetime, and laser damage threshold studies of 1, 3, 5-triphenylbenzene (TPB) single crystal for scintillation application. Appl. Phys. A 126, 459 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-03578-3

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