Abstract
X-ray imaging technology is critical to numerous different walks of daily life, ranging from medical radiography and security screening all the way to high-energy physics. Although several organic chromophores are fabricated and tested as X-ray imaging scintillators, they generally show poor scintillation performance due to their weak X-ray absorption cross-section and inefficient exciton utilization efficiency. Here, a singlet fission-based high-performance organic X-ray imaging scintillator with near unity exciton utilization efficiency is presented. Interestingly, it is found that the X-ray sensitivity and imaging resolution of the singlet fission-based scintillator are dramatically improved by an efficient energy transfer from a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) sensitizer, in which both singlet and triplet excitons can be efficiently harnessed. The fabricated singlet fission-based scintillator exhibits a high X-ray imaging resolution of 27.5 line pairs per millimeter (lp mm−1), which exceeds that of most commercial scintillators, demonstrating its high potential use in medical radiography and security inspection.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 2300406 |
Journal | Advanced Science |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jul 6 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). For computer time, this research used the resources of the Supercomputing Laboratory at King Abdulla University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Keywords
- energy transfer
- high-resolution X-ray imaging scintillator
- singlet fission
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- General Chemical Engineering
- General Materials Science
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
- General Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy