Synthesis and characterization of oxygen doped ZnTe for powder phosphor application

摘要

The synthesis of efficient ZnTe powder phosphors is very difficult due to its high moisture sensitivity and chemical instability during processing. In this study, an efficient ZnTe:O powder phosphor for x-ray imaging application was successfully synthesized by vacuum firing ZnTe powder prepared from ZnTe bulk crystals ball-milled in an 02 atmosphere. The phosphors were characterized by x-ray diffraction, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, photoluminescence, and cathodoluminescence (CL) measurements and found to exhibit a luminescent efficiency three times that of ZnTe:O prepared by ZnO doping. The ZnTe:O samples exhibited a deep red emission centered at 680 nm and a CL decay time of 1.1 mu s.