Mercuric iodide (HgI2) for applications in radiation detectors / Iodeto de mercúrio (HgI2) para aplicações em detectores de radiação.

AUTOR(ES)

Julio César Ugucioni

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Recently, attention has been devoted to the study of mercuric iodide (HgI2) because this material is a strong candidate for the development of X- and γ -ray detectors. This material has an optical gap of 2.13 eV, high atomic number (ZHg = 80; ZI = 53) and high absorption coefficient for radiation in the wavelength region of X- and γ –rays. When solid, three phases can be obtained: red (or α-HgI2), yellow (or β-HgI2) and orange. Each of these phases has a different crystalline structure: α-HgI2 is tetragonal, as it is the orange- HgI 2 (the difference is that for the last one the mercury atoms sits in different positions), while the β-HgI2 is orthorhombic. In this work we obtained these materials using two different techniques: spray pyrolysis and solvent evaporation. For both of them the most important parameters are the deposition temperature and solvent evaporation rate. Thin films with two different structures were obtained by spray pyrolysis varying the substrate temperature and the solvent. Using water as solvent and deposition temperature above 100ºC we obtained yellow HgI2. When the temperature is reduced below that value and the solvent is ethanol, red films were obtained. For the solvent evaporation technique, lateral films and millimeter-sized crystals were obtained by varying the solvent evaporation rate. For ethanol as solvent we used four evaporation rates named as fast(~10ml/h), medium (~0.5ml/h), slow (~0.1ml/h) and super-slow (~0.01ml/h). For the medium and slow evaporation rates lateral films were obtained on the wall of the reservoir. For the super-slow evaporation rate crystals were obtained at the bottom of the reservoir. We observed that light has a tremendous influence on crystal growth: bigger crystals are obtained in the dark than under ambient light illumination. As characterization techniques we used: X-rays diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS), and Raman Scattering.

ASSUNTO(S)

solvent evaporation evaporação de solvente caracterização estrutural structural characterization mercuric iodide iodeto de mercúrio spray pyrolysis spray pyrolysis

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