The invention discloses a novel low-
afterglow scintillator single crystal and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of materials. A novel
scintillator CsCu2Br3
single crystal is prepared through a cooling
crystallization method for the first time. The specific preparation method comprises the steps that CsBr and CuBr are put into a
crystal growth
bottle, and a
hypophosphorous acid solution and a
hydrobromic acid solution are sequentially added; the preparation method comprises the following steps: preparing a precursor solution, then sealing the solution, then putting the solution into an
oil bath pan, setting the temperature to 90 DEG C for 24 hours, and then carrying out three-stage gradient cooling, in the first stage, rapid cooling is that the temperature of the precursor solution is reduced to 66 DEG C from 90 DEG C within 10 hours; in the second stage of extremely
slow cooling, the temperature of the precursor solution is reduced to 60 DEG C from 66 DEG C at the speed of reducing 2 DEG C every day; in the third stage, the temperature of the precursor solution is reduced to 55 DEG C from 60 DEG C at the speed of reducing 2.5 DEG C every day until the growth of the
crystal is finished, and then the
crystal is put into a
vacuum drying oven to be subjected to constant-temperature
drying treatment for 24 hours to finally prepare the CsCu2Br3
centimeter-level
single crystal with fewer
nucleation points and better seed crystals, and the prepared CsCu2Br3 single crystal has the characteristic of low
afterglow, and can be used for preparing the CsCu2Br3
centimeter-level single crystal. The method can be applied to the fields of X-
ray imaging and
CT imaging.