Impurities behaviors in indium iodide materials

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

doi:10.1109/TNS.2018.2796388

Impurities behaviors in indium iodide materials

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

School of Health and Environmental Science

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	909-912
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	65
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2018.2796388
Publication status	Published - 2018 Mar

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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