An examination on the porosity of ErF3 doped CaF2 crystal using the Rutherford back-scattering method

Phan Luong Tuan; Mirsolaw Kulik; Marius Stef; Tran Van Phuc; Nguyen Thi Bao My; Tatyana Yuryevna Zelenyak; Gabriel Buse; Andrei Racu; Aleksandr Doroshkevich; Le Hong Khiem; Vu Duc Cong; Andriy Igorevych Lyubchyk; Sergiy Igorevich Lyubchyk; Svitlana Borisovna Lyubchyk; Nguyen Ngoc Anh

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2023.165178

An examination on the porosity of ErF₃ doped CaF₂ crystal using the Rutherford back-scattering method

Phan Luong Tuan, Mirsolaw Kulik, Marius Stef, Tran Van Phuc, Nguyen Thi Bao My, Tatyana Yuryevna Zelenyak, Gabriel Buse, Andrei Racu, Aleksandr Doroshkevich, Le Hong Khiem, Vu Duc Cong, Andriy Igorevych Lyubchyk, Sergiy Igorevich Lyubchyk, Svitlana Borisovna Lyubchyk, Nguyen Ngoc Anh

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Abstract

This work investigates the porosity of ErF₃ doped CaF₂ crystals using the Rutherford back-scattering (RBS) method. Two ErF₃:CaF₂ samples of 2.0 and 5.5% doping ratios were prepared using the Bridgman method. The RBS spectra of these samples at two incident angle configurations of the projectile alpha, i.e., 0 and 30 degree, were collected using the Rutherford back-scattering spectrometer at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia. The measured spectra were analyzed with sample models of porous materials using the SIMNRA program. It turns out that the porous volume ratio and diameter are probably in the intervals of 18 to 22% and 2.4×10¹⁸ to 3.0×10¹⁸ atoms per cm², respectively. However, the RBS method exhibits significant uncertainty, impeding our ability to establish a correlation between porosity characteristics and doping ratios.

Original language	English
Article number	165178
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Volume	547
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2023.165178
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2024

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The authors wish to acknowledge the technical staff of the EG-5 group, FLNP, JINR for the RBS measurements. The study was performed in the scope of the H2020/MSCA/RISE/SSHARE number 871284 project, RO-JINR Project No. 366/2021 item 84, Serbia-JINR cooperation, Projects No. 178 2021 items 7 and 8, Vietnam-the International Center of Physics at the Institute of Physics Grant ICP.2024.04. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. The authors wish to acknowledge the technical staff of the EG-5 group, FLNP, JINR for the RBS measurements. The study was performed in the scope of the H2020/MSCA/RISE/SSHARE number 871284 project, RO-JINR Project No. 366/2021 item 84, Serbia-JINR cooperation, Projects No. 178 2021 items 7 and 8, Vietnam-the International Center of Physics at the Institute of Physics Grant ICP.2024.04 . All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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SSHARE	178 2021, 871284, 366/2021, ICP.2024.04
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

Keywords

ErF doped CaF
Porosity
RBS
SIMNRA code

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Tuan, P. L., Kulik, M., Stef, M., Phuc, T. V., My, N. T. B., Zelenyak, T. Y., Buse, G., Racu, A., Doroshkevich, A., Khiem, L. H., Cong, V. D., Lyubchyk, A. I., Lyubchyk, S. I., Lyubchyk, S. B., & Anh, N. N. (2024). An examination on the porosity of ErF₃ doped CaF₂ crystal using the Rutherford back-scattering method. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 547, Article 165178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2023.165178

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