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JOURNAL OF APPLIED CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages 604-611Publisher
INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
DOI: 10.1107/S1600576721002065
Keywords
Tl2LiYCl6; elpasolite; scintillators; phase transitions; neutron diffraction
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- US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (DNN) [AC02-05CH11231, 89233218NCA000001]
- DOE/SBIR from RMD Inc. [DE-SC0015793]
- National Nuclear Security Administration of the US Department of Energy [89233218NCA000001]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0015793] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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This study investigates the impact of the Tl atom on the elpasolite structure, revealing that TLYC exhibits a tetragonal crystal structure at 296K and undergoes a structural transition to a cubic phase at 464K.
Tl2LiYCl6 (TLYC) is an analog to Cs2LiYCl6, which is currently an industry-standard inorganic scintillator for radiation detection with good gamma-neutron discrimination. The presence of thallium (Z = 81) instead of cesium (Z = 55) in the elpasolite structure increases the density of the compound and its stopping power for gamma rays. This work investigates the impact of the Tl atom on the elpasolite structure. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction at room temperature and powder neutron diffraction with temperature control were used to characterize the crystal structure of TLYC between 296 and 725K. The presence of Tl leads to a distortion of the cubic elpasolite structure at room temperature: a tetragonal P4(2) crystal structure (space group 77, a = 10.223, c = 10.338 angstrom) is identified for TLYC at 296K. A structural transition to the cubic elpasolite Fm (3) over barm phase (space group 225) is observed at 464K. The thermal expansion of the material for each crystal direction is well described by a linear relationship, except for the region between 400 and 464K where the lattice parameters converge.
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