Impurities behaviors in indium iodide materials

Sohee Leem, Seokjin Hwang, Hwanseung Yu, Yongsu Yoon, Kihyun Kim

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    Abstract

    Environmentally friendly 99.998%-pure indium iodide (InI), one candidate materials for the room-temperature operating radiation detector, was purified more than 250 times using the zone-refining method to reduce the impurities. Segregation coefficient of major positive and negative impurities of the purified InI ingot was analyzed using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy. Electrical and spectroscopic properties of the purified Pd/InI/Pd detector were also determined. Planar Pd/InI/Pd detector showed the 59.5-keV gamma peak of Am-241 clearly. However, low-energy gamma peaks were buried in the noise. Mechanical or electrical degradation under an ambient condition was not observed for six months. Electrical resistivity and electron mobility-lifetime product of the multiple-refined InI were 4× 1011,Ωcm and 1.3× 10-3,cm2/V, respectively.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)909-912
    Number of pages4
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
    Volume65
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018 Mar

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received July 17, 2017; revised November 6, 2017; accepted January 12, 2018. Date of publication January 23, 2018; date of current version March 14, 2018. This work was supported in part by Korea University under grant K1605381 and in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea through the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning, South Korea, under Grant NRF-2015M2B2A9032788. (Corresponding author: Kihyun Kim.) S. Leem is with the School of Health and Environmental Science, Korea University, Seoul 02841, South Korea.

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    Keywords

    • Indium iodide (InI)
    • Pd/InI/Pd
    • pulse-height measurements
    • radiation detectors
    • segregation coefficients
    • time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (ToF-SIMS)
    • zone refining

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
    • Nuclear Energy and Engineering
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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