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Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals for X-ray Imaging.

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Low-dose, high-resolution X-ray imaging is vital for medical diagnostics and material/device analyses. Current X-ray imagers are dominated by expensive inorganic materials via high-temperature solid processes (up to 1700 °C, e.g.,… Click to show full abstract

Low-dose, high-resolution X-ray imaging is vital for medical diagnostics and material/device analyses. Current X-ray imagers are dominated by expensive inorganic materials via high-temperature solid processes (up to 1700 °C, e.g., CsI:Tl) with heavy metal elements. It is essential to search for new materials as X-ray imagers with low growth temperature, low cost, high sensitivity, along with high chemical and environmental stability. Here, 9,10-diphenylanthracene (9,10-DPA) single crystals are used as a representative model, which are grown via low-temperature solution processes, exhibiting intense X-ray radioluminescence with ultrahigh photon-conversion efficiency, ultrafast response and high sensitivity. The resolution of devices based on organic crystals exceeds 20.00 lp mm-1 . Meanwhile the crystals exhibit high cycle performance under X-ray irradiation and environmental stability. This study demonstrates that organic semiconductors have potential use in low-cost, high-sensitivity and low-dose X-ray imaging systems.

Keywords: semiconductor single; high sensitivity; single crystals; ray imaging; organic semiconductor; ray

Journal Title: Advanced materials
Year Published: 2021

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