Tailoring the electron and hole dimensionality to achieve efficient and stable metal halide perovskite scintillators
Zhifang Tan, Jincong Pang, Guangda Niu, Jun‐Hui Yuan, Kan‐Hao Xue, Xiangshui Miao, Weijian Tao, Haiming Zhu, Zhigang Li, Hongtao Zhao, Xinyuan Du, Jiang Tang
Abstract
Abstract Metal halide perovskites have recently been reported as excellent scintillators for X‐ray detection. However, perovskite based scintillators are susceptible to moisture and oxygen atmosphere, such as the water solubility of CsPbBr 3 , and oxidation vulnerability of Sn 2+ , Cu + . The traditional metal halide scintillators (NaI: Tl, LaBr 3 , etc.) are also severely restricted by their high hygroscopicity. Here we report a new kind of lead free perovskite with excellent water and radiation stability, Rb 2 Sn 1‐ x Te x Cl 6 . The equivalent doping of Te could break the in‐phase bonding interaction between neighboring octahedra in Rb 2 SnCl 6 , and thus decrease the electron and hole dimensionality. The optimized Te content of 5% resulted in high photoluminescence quantum yield of 92.4%, and low X‐ray detection limit of 0.7 µGy air s −1 . The photoluminescence and radioluminescence could be maintained without any loss when immersing in water or after 480,000 Gy radiations, outperforming previous perovskite and traditional metal halides scintillators.