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Detection of ionizing radiation is one of the foundations of modern society, with critical technological applications in medical diagnostics and treatment, space exploration, the nuclear energy industry, and border security. However, the rapidly increasing use of radiation in recent decades has correlated to higher radiation exposure in the population, with corresponding harmful effects to the health of workers and patients. Active monitoring of radiation doses has now become compulsory in many countries to instantaneously detect, evaluate, and correct for any deviations from planned exposure events. Current technologies for detecting ionizing radiation are composed of thick and mechanically rigid solid-state semiconductors, including silicon, selenium, and cadmium telluride; however, these materials are expensive to manufacture and cannot be easily fabricated into flexible or large-area sensing arrays. While such technologies exhibit excellent performance, they cannot satisfy all the demands for real-time monitoring of radiation in complex environments, where materials and devices should ideally be portable, lightweight, flexible, and with low operating power requirements. New hybrid materials must therefore be developed for radiation detection, combining the performance of inorganic semiconductors with these other desirable properties. In this chapter, we review the key material properties of metal-halide perovskites for printable ionizing radiation detection, techniques to form them into devices from solution, and the breakthroughs enabled by, and challenges remaining for, printable perovskites for radiation detection.
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Posar, J.A., Liao, C., Tegg, L., Ho-Baillie, A., Petasecca, M., Griffith, M.J. (2023). Solution Processable Metal-Halide Perovskites for Printable and Flexible Ionizing Radiation Detectors. In: Nie, W., Iniewski, K.(. (eds) Metal-Halide Perovskite Semiconductors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26892-2_8
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