Stable Organic Antimony Halides with Near‐Unity Photoluminescence Quantum Yield for X‐Ray Imaging

Abstract

AbstractX‐ray imaging technology has been widely used in the fields of environmental monitoring, safety inspection, nondestructive examination, space exploration, and medical diagnosis, among which scintillation materials play a vital role in indirectly converting X‐ray to visible photons. Here, a zero‐dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid halide C50H44P2SbCl5 crystal is prepared via a facile antisolvent precipitation method at room temperature. The single crystal of C50H44P2SbCl5 displays a strong yellow broadband emission centered at 592 nm with a near‐unity photoluminescence quantum yield of 98.42%. Importantly, C50H44P2SbCl5 crystals show great environmental stability and irradiation stability. Radioluminescence characterization indicates that C50H44P2SbCl5 crystals exhibit a good linear response to X‐ray dose rates along with an excellent light yield of 44 460 photons MeV−1, surpassing that of commercial inorganic LuAG:Ce scintillator. The spatial resolution of the C50H44P2SbCl5‐based scintillating screen is determined to be 8.2 lp mm−1. In conjunction with polymer thin film, the excellent scintillating feature of organic–inorganic hybrid halides offers exciting opportunities for achieving high‐quality flexible X‐ray imaging.