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Optical and scintillation properties of ZnO translucent ceramics annealed at different temperatures

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ZnO translucent ceramics were synthesized by spark plasma sintering. To improve photoluminescence (PL) and scintillation properties caused by mainly oxygen vacancies in addition to some kinds of other defects, the synthesized samples were annealed at the temperature range from 600 to 800 °C in steps of 50 °C in the air. All the ZnO samples showed PL and scintillation at around 500 nm with the decay time constants of several microseconds order. After the annealing, the absorption due to oxygen vacancies was decreased, and PL quantum yields (QYs) and scintillation light yields (LYs) were improved in comparison with the as-prepared sample. Among all the samples, the ZnO translucent ceramic annealed at 750 °C showed the highest PL QY (25.1%) and LYs (44,200 ph/5.5 MeV-α and 30,500 ph/MeV).

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This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific B (19H03533, 21H03733 and 21H03736), Early-Career Scientists (20K15026 and 20K20104) and JSPS Fellows (20J23225) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The Cooperative Research Project of Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, Nippon Sheet Glass Foundation, Yashima Environment Technology Foundation, and Hitachi Metals-Materials Science Foundation are also acknowledged.

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    Toshiaki Kunikata, Takumi Kato, Daiki Shiratori, Daisuke Nakauchi, Noriaki Kawaguchi & Takayuki Yanagida

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Kunikata, T., Kato, T., Shiratori, D. et al. Optical and scintillation properties of ZnO translucent ceramics annealed at different temperatures. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 2234–2241 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-07436-7

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