High-Efficiency Down-Conversion Radiation Fluorescence and Ultrafast Photoluminescence (1.2 ns) at the Interface of Hybrid Cs₄PbBr₆-CsI Nanocrystals

The research of fast scintillators in positron emission tomography and other applications based on time-of-flight technology promotes the development of radiation detection. However, because of the current lack of efficient and fast carrier radiation recombination pathways, the research on scintillator radioluminescence (RL) still faces severe challenges. Here, we propose an effective interface carrier transport mechanism: CsI:Na crystal and Cs4PbBr6 nanocrystals (NCs) interface to form a new phase and a continuous heterostructure, providing an effective channel for X-ray excited carrier transfer to Cs4PbBr6. Then, the excited carriers realize efficient recombination luminescence through the self-trapped excitons inside Cs4PbBr6. On the basis of this mechanism, the heterostructure composite scintillator composed of CsI:Na/Cs4PbBr6 exhibits high-efficiency radiant fluorescence and an ultrafast photoluminescence (PL) decay time of 1.22 ns. The effective interface carrier transport shown in this work provides an optimization idea that can be used for reference in the research of fast scintillators.