Ytterbium-Doped Cesium Lead Chloride Perovskite as an X-ray Scintillator with High Light Yield

Ytterbium-doped cesium lead halides are quantum cutting materials with exceptionally high photoluminescence quantum yields, making them promising materials as scintillators. In this work, we report ytterbium-doped cesium lead chloride (Yb³⁺:CsPbCl₃) with an X-ray scintillation light yield of 102,000 photons/MeV at room temperature, which is brighter than the current state-of-the-art commercial scintillators. The high light yield was achieved based on a novel method of synthesizing Yb³⁺:CsPbCl₃ powders using water and low-temperature processing. The combination of high light yield and the simple and inexpensive manufacturing method reported in this work demonstrates the great potential of Yb³⁺:CsPbCl₃ for scintillation applications.