30 research outputs found
Specific features of the luminescence and conductivity of zinc selenide on exposure to X-ray and optical excitation
The set of experimental data on the X-ray-excited luminescence and X-ray
induced conductivity of ZnSe are compared to the data on the photoluminescence
and photoconductivity. It is experimentally established that the
current-voltage characteristics and the kinetics of phosphorescence and current
relaxation depend on the type of excitation. It is found that the external
electric field influences the intensity and shape of bands in the luminescence
spectra. It is shown that the character of excitation defines the kinetics of
recombination, charge carrier trapping, and conductivity in wide-gap
semiconductors.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov,
2010, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 594-59
Purification of molybdenum oxide, growth and characterization of medium size zinc molybdate crystals for the LUMINEU program
The LUMINEU program aims at performing a pilot experiment on neutrinoless
double beta decay of 100Mo using radiopure ZnMoO4 crystals operated as
scintillating bolometers. Growth of high quality radiopure crystals is a
complex task, since there are no commercially available molybdenum compounds
with the required levels of purity and radioactive contamination. This paper
discusses approaches to purify molybdenum and synthesize compound for high
quality radiopure ZnMoO4 crystal growth. A combination of a double sublimation
(with addition of zinc molybdate) with subsequent recrystallization in aqueous
solutions (using zinc molybdate as a collector) was used. Zinc molybdate
crystals up to 1.5 kg were grown by the low-thermal-gradient Czochralski
technique, their optical, luminescent, diamagnetic, thermal and bolometric
properties were tested.Comment: Contribution to Proc. of Int. Workshop on Radiopure Scintillators
RPSCINT 2013, 17-20 September 2013, Kyiv, Ukraine; to be published in EPJ Web
of Conferences; expected to be online in January 2014; 6 pages, 6 figures,
and 3 table
Light Sum Accumulation in ZnSe Crystals at X-Ray Excitation
This paper presents the results of the dose dependencies of the light sum accumulation in ZnSe single crystals at a different X-ray excitation at 85 K. The values of light sum accumulation at different deep traps were determined from the thermally stimulated luminescence and conductivity curves. It was confirmed that the accumulated light sum is uniquely determined by the dose of radiation only, that is, the product of the intensity of excitation by the time of X-ray exposure. The same result is also given by the theoretical consideration of the kinetics of the light sum accumulation on deep traps for a multicenter model of crystal phosphors
The Dependencies of X-Ray Conductivity and X-Ray Luminescence of ZnSe Crystals on the Excitation Intensity
This work studies the conductivity and luminescence of ZnSe single crystals under X-ray irradiation. The experimentally derived lux-ampere characteristics of the X-ray conductivity for ZnSe crystals have a sublinear behavior within the temperature range from 8 to 420 K. The theoretical analysis of the conductivity kinetics at X-ray excitation showed that the value of maximum accumulated lightsum at deep traps does not depend on radiation intensity. However, regarding shallow and phosphorescent traps, the strength of accumulated lightsum depends on the intensity of exciting irradiation. Specifically, these shallow traps and phosphorescent traps cause the sublinear behavior of lux-ampere characteristics in the semiconductor material