闪烁体
光致发光
材料科学
量子产额
光电子学
闪烁
发色团
吸收(声学)
激子
纳米技术
荧光
光学
物理
光化学
化学
探测器
复合材料
量子力学
作者
Jianxin Wang,Luis Gutiérrez‐Arzaluz,Xiaojia Wang,Tengyue He,Yuhai Zhang,Mohamed Eddaoudi,Osman M. Bakr,Omar F. Mohammed
出处
期刊:Nature Photonics
[Springer Nature]
日期:2022-10-27
卷期号:16 (12): 869-875
被引量:66
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41566-022-01092-x
摘要
The architectural design and fabrication of low-cost and reliable organic X-ray imaging scintillators with high light yield, ultralow detection limits and excellent imaging resolution is becoming one of the most attractive research directions for chemists, materials scientists, physicists and engineers due to the devices’ promising scientific and applied technological implications. However, the optimal balance among X-ray absorption capability, exciton utilization efficiency and photoluminescence quantum yield of organic scintillation materials is extremely difficult to achieve because of several competitive non-radiative processes, including intersystem crossing and internal conversion. Here we introduced heavy atoms (Cl, Br and I) into thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) chromophores to significantly increase their X-ray absorption cross-section and maintaining their unique TADF properties and high photoluminescence quantum yield. The X-ray imaging screens fabricated using TADF-Br chromophores exhibited highly improved X-ray sensitivity and imaging resolution compared with the TADF-H counterpart. More importantly, the high X-ray imaging resolution of >18.0 line pairs per millimetre achieved from the TADF-Br screen exceeds most reported organic and conventional inorganic scintillators. This study could help revive research on organic X-ray imaging scintillators and pave the way towards exciting applications for radiology and security screening. Heavy atoms like Cl, Br and I introduced into thermally activated delayed fluorescence chromophores can increase the X-ray absorption cross-section. Light yield of ~20,000 photons MeV–1, detection limit of 45.5 nGy s−1 and imaging resolution of >18.0 line pairs per millimetre is demonstrated.
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