Thermoluminescent Properties of Undoped and Ce-Doped Lutetium Orthosilicate and Yttrium Orthosilicate Single Crystals and Single Crystalline Films Scintillators

In this work the comparative analysis of thermoluminescent properties of undoped and Ce-doped single crystals (SC) and single crystalline films (SCF) of Lu₂SiO₅ (LSO) and Y₂SiO₅ (YSO) orthosilicates were performed. The SC samples were prepared with the Czochralski method, and SCF were grown by the liquid phase epitaxy technique. We show that such different methods of material preparation resulted in different thermoluminescent properties of undoped and Ce³⁺ doped LSO and YSO SC and SCF caused by the presence host defects (first of all, oxygen vacancies) as trapping centers in SC and formation of Pb²⁺-Ce⁴⁺ pair centers in SCF.