Development of plastic scintillators loaded with perovskite quantum dots and wavelength shifting molecules

Abstract We have deloveloped plastic scintillators loaded with perovskite quantum dots (QDs) to obtain efficient scintillation and enhanced detection efficiency of high-energy photons such as X-rays and gamma rays. In previous studies, the loading of the perovsite QDs was not successful to achieve efficient scintillation owing to the severe self-absorption of the QD emission, which is caused by small Stokes shift of the QDs. In the present study, we added wavelength shifting molecules to suppress the self-absorption. Among three samples, we have succeeded in enhancement in the scintillation light yield and shortening of the scintillation decay by the suppression of the self-absorption in polustyrene-based plastic scintillators added with butyl-PBD, QD-P450, and Coumarin6, and butyl-PBD, QD-P510, and Nile red. This result indicates that it is necessary to avoid the self-absorption to fully exploit the fast and efficient emission of the perovskite QDs.