Defect Engineering of BiI3 Single Crystals: Enhanced Electrical and Radiation Performance for Room Temperature Gamma-Ray Detection

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• 作者：HyukSu Han ; Minki Hong ; Sasmit S. Gokhale ; Susan B. Sinnott ; Kelly Jordan ; James E. Baciak ; Juan C. Nino
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：February 13, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：118
• 期：6
• 页码：3244-3250
• 全文大小：444K
• ISSN：1932-7455

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Undoped and Sb-doped BiI₃ (SBI) single crystals are grown via the vertical Bridgman growth technique. Electrical properties, such as resistivity and leakage current, in addition to radiation response measurements are performed on both BiI₃ and SBI single crystal detectors. The resistivity of SBI (2.6310⁹ 惟路cm) increases by an order of magnitude compared to that of BiI₃ (1.45 脳 10⁸ 惟路cm). Furthermore, leakage currents of SBI (10^鈥? 渭A/cm²) decrease by four orders magnitude relative to BiI₃. The radiation response of the SBI indicates that less polarization exists under bias for prolonged periods of time, making SBI a promising material for use in gamma-ray detector applications. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations predict that Sb forms strong covalent bonds with neighboring iodine ions and that the Sb鈥揑 dimer can be formed when Sb is doped into the BiI₃ lattice. In addition, defect modeling verifies that substitution of Bi ions with Sb and incorporation of Sb in iodine vacancy sites can effectively decrease the formation and migration of iodine vacancies, which significantly improves radiation detection performance of the material.