TY - JOUR
T1 - An examination on the porosity of ErF3 doped CaF2 crystal using the Rutherford back-scattering method
AU - Tuan, Phan Luong
AU - Kulik, Mirsolaw
AU - Stef, Marius
AU - Phuc, Tran Van
AU - My, Nguyen Thi Bao
AU - Zelenyak, Tatyana Yuryevna
AU - Buse, Gabriel
AU - Racu, Andrei
AU - Doroshkevich, Aleksandr
AU - Khiem, Le Hong
AU - Cong, Vu Duc
AU - Lyubchyk, Andriy Igorevych
AU - Lyubchyk, Sergiy Igorevich
AU - Lyubchyk, Svitlana Borisovna
AU - Anh, Nguyen Ngoc
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2024/2/1
Y1 - 2024/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - ErF doped CaF
KW - Porosity
KW - RBS
KW - SIMNRA code
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85178640417&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.nimb.2023.165178
DO - 10.1016/j.nimb.2023.165178
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85178640417
SN - 0168-583X
VL - 547
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
M1 - 165178
ER -