Impact of selenium addition to the cadmium-zinc-telluride matrix for producing high energy resolution X-and gamma-ray detectors

Roy, Utpal N.; Camarda, Giuseppe S.; Cui, Yonggang; Yang, Ge; James, Ralph B.

doi:10.1038/s41598-021-89795-z

Title: Impact of selenium addition to the cadmium-zinc-telluride matrix for producing high energy resolution X-and gamma-ray detectors

Journal Article · Fri May 14 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89795-z· OSTI ID:1782955

Roy, Utpal N.; Camarda, Giuseppe S.; Cui, Yonggang; Yang, Ge; James, Ralph B.

Both material quality and detector performance have been steadily improving over the past few years for the leading room temperature radiation detector material cadmium-zinc-telluride (CdZnTe). However, although tremendous progress being made, CdZnTe still suffers from high concentrations of performance-limiting defects, such as Te inclusions, networks of sub-grain boundaries and compositional inhomogeneity due to the higher segregation coefficient of Zn. Adding as low as 2% (atomic) Se into CdZnTe matrix was found to successfully mitigate many performance-limiting defects and provide improved compositional homogeneity. Here we report record-high performance of Virtual Frisch Grid (VFG) detector fabricated from as-grown Cd_0.9Zn_0.1Te_0.98Se_0.02 ingot grown by the Traveling Heater Method (THM). Benefiting from superior material quality, we achieved superb energy resolution of 0.77% at 662 keV (as-measured without charge-loss correction algorithms) registered at room temperature. The absence of residual thermal stress in the detector was revealed from white beam X-ray topographic images, which was also confirmed by Infra-Red (IR) transmission imaging under cross polarizers. Furthermore, neither sub-grain boundaries nor their networks were observed from the X-ray topographic image. However, large concentrations of extrinsic impurities were revealed in as-grown materials, suggesting a high likelihood for further reduction in the energy resolution after improved purification of the starting material.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704; AC09-08SR22470

OSTI ID:: 1782955

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1805251; OSTI ID: 1807893

Report Number(s):: BNL-221713-2021-JAAM; SRNL-STI-2020-00543; 10338; PII: 89795

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Vol. 11 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2045-2322

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United Kingdom

Language:: English

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