Luminescent properties of CsI single crystals grown from the melt treated with EuI sub(2)

CsI single crystals treated with EuI sub(2) as a scavenger are grown and their radioluminescence spectra and scintillation light decay curves are obtained. Addition of the quantities of the scavenger comparable with the total concentration of the oxygen-containing admixtures in the melt results in complete destruction of the latter. In its turn, this causes the disappearance of the band with a maximum at 2.8 eV in the radioluminescence spectrum and decreases the fraction of the slow 2 mu s-component to 0.01. The addition of larger quantities of EuI sub(2) leads to the appearance of a wide band with the maximum at 2.8 eV characterized by a decay constant of 2 mu s; its intensity increases with the EuI sub(2) concentration. The maximum ratio of two faster components with the decay constants equal to 7 and 30 ns approaches 0.58:0.41 at EuI sub(2) concentration in CsI melt equal to 0.01 mol.kg super(-1). CsI single crystals treated with EuI sub(2) as a scavenger are grown and their radioluminescence spectra and scintillation light decay curves are obtained. Addition of the quantities of the scavenger comparable with the total concentration of the oxygen-containing admixtures in the melt results in complete destruction of the latter. In its turn, this causes the disappearance of the band with a maximum at 2.8 eV in the radioluminescence spectrum and decreases the fraction of the slow 2 mu s-component to 0.01. The addition of larger quantities of EuI sub(2) leads to the appearance of a wide band with the maximum at 2.8 eV characterized by a decay constant of 2 mu s; its intensity increases with the EuI sub(2) concentration. The ...