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Scintillating materials show 5d-4f electric dipole allowed transitions located in the UV and visible regions, which make them widely used in various fields for the detection of X-ray and γ-ray photons or accelerated particles. Nowadays, most of the used materials are based on Ce3+ activated systems, but in the last years much attention has been focused on the study of the 5d-4f emission of Pr3+ in wide band-gap hosts. The emitting lowest 5d state of Pr3+ ions is located at higher energy than the one for Ce3+ in the same host, and its emission lifetime is about two or three times shorter (Ronda C, Gondek J, Goirand E, Jüstel T, Bettinelli M, Meijerink A, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp.Proc 1111:1111- D08-01, 2009; Korzhik M,. Fedorov A, Annenkov A, Borissevitch A, Dossovitski A, Missevitch O, Lecoq P, Nucl Instrum Methods A 571:122, 2007). As a result, the choice of Pr3+ as an activator ion for wide band-gap hosts may constitute a promising alternative in the development of new fast scintillators.
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Carrasco, I., Bartosiewicz, K., Piccinelli, F., Nikl, M., Bettinelli, M. (2017). 5d-4f Radioluminescence in Pr3+-doped K3YxLu1-x (PO4)2 . In: Di Bartolo, B., Collins, J., Silvestri, L. (eds) Nano-Optics: Principles Enabling Basic Research and Applications. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0850-8_45
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