Scintillation properties of Ce-doped Tb3Al5O12

Tb3Al5O12 (TbAG) crystalline materials doped with different concentrations of Ce were prepared by the floating zone (FZ) method to evaluate their basic optical and scintillation properties. In photoluminescence (PL), a broad emission due to the 5d-4f f transition of Ce3+ appeared around 550 nm, and the decay time was approximately 40 ns. Under X-ray irradiation, the scintillation due to the 5d-4f transition of Ce3+ was also observed around 550 nm, but the decay time appeared to be much longer 376-599 ns than that of PL and it depended on the concentration of Ce. The pulse height spectroscopy analyses revealed that 3.0% Ce-doped TbAG showed the highest light yield of 30,100 ph/MeV under Cs-137 gamma-ray irradiation among the samples investigated in this work. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.