The Oxide Crystals group led by prof. Oleg Sidletskiy provides synthesis and characterization of novel oxide materials for scintillation and/or laser applications, and develops innovative growth technologies to reduce crystal production cost and to facilitate technology transfer into industry.

Following the ENSEMBLE³ priorities, Oxide crystal group is focused on 2 areas:

Innovative crystal growth technologies to reduce production cost;
Novel oxide materials with enhanced performance.
Rare-earth oxide crystals for Faraday rotator application
Scintillator crystals for medical applications
Exploration of functional spintronics materials
Advancement in piezoelectric materials

The project "Heterostructures for ultrafast scintillation detectors" conducted with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan received the awarded amount of PLN 1,986,470 from NCN OPUS24 competition for 3 years.

This project is dedicated to development and characterization of heterostructure scintillation materials for new generation of Time-Of-Flight positron emission tomographs.

Prof. Oleg Sidletskiy

Group Leader

Prof. Sidletskiy has got his PhD Degree in Physics of Molecular and Liquid Crystals in Institute for Single Crystals NAS of Ukraine in 2004, Dr. Eng. (dr. hab.) Degree in Materials Science in 2018, and professor degree in 2020 in Institute for Scintillation materials NAS of Ukraine. His basic research interests include chemistry, physics and technology of crystal growth, development of scintillation materials.

Orcid 0000-0003-0865-6517

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Recent papers by the group:

Yu. A. Berezhnoy, V. V. Pilipenko, G. M. Onyshchenko, P. E. Kuznietsov, I. I. Yakymenko, and A. V. Anataichuk, "Analysis of elastic α58-Ni Scattering in the Energy Region 82-699 MeV by the S-Matrix Model", International Journal of Modern Physics E, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301324500186
Lingchun Jia, Mu Gu, Jiajie Zhu, Borys Grynyov, Oleg Sidletskiy, “Influence of carbon doping on stability of intrinsic defects in Y3Al5O12 and Lu3Al5O12” Accepted to Physica Status Solidi B 2024 https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.202300544
Aravinthkumar P, Gopi G, and Anandhababu, Investigation on structural, dielectric, ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of (1-x)PbTiO3 – (x)Bi(Zn2/3Nb1/3)O3 solid solutions J. Mater. Sci: Mater Electron, 2024, 35, 200 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-11929-6
Arun Kumar, Aravinthkumar P, Anandhababu G, Vijayakumar P, Sathyanarayana AT, and Ganesamoorthy S “Growth and characterization of Dy1-xSmxMnO3 single crystals by optical floating zone technique”, - Journal of Crystal Growth 2024, 628, 127544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2023.127544
Onyshchenko, G., Grynyov, B., Yakymenko, I., Naydenov, S., Kuznietsov, P., Shchus, O. counting efficiency of registration of contributions of fast neutron reaction products by detectors based on oxide scintillators znwo4, bi4 ge3 o12, cdwo4 and gd2 sio5 (2023) East European Journal of Physics, 2023 (4), pp. 355-370 https://doi.org/10.26565/2312-4334-2023-4-46
E. Galenin, V. Galenina, I. Gerasymov, D. Kurtsev, S. Tkachenko, P. Arhipov, S. Sadivnycha, V. Alekseev, A. Shaposhnyk, I. Boiaryntseva, V. Niestierkina, S. Witkiewicz-Lukaszek, Y. Zorenko, O. Sidletskiy, Growth of Sesquioxide Crystals from Tungsten Crucibles by Vertical Gradient Freezing Method, Crystals, 2023, 12, 591 https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst13040591
I. Gerasymov, S. Witkiewicz-Lukaszek , T. Zorenko , K. Bartosiewicz, Yu Zorenko , J. Winiecki, D. Kofanov, Ya. Boyaryntseva, S. Tkachenko, P. Arhipov, E. Galenin, D. Kurtsev, O. Zelenskaya, V. Alekseev, K. Lebbou, O. Sidletskiy, Effects of Codoping With Divalent Cations on Performance of YAG:Ce,C Scintillator, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 70, Issue: 7, July 2023, pp. 1362-1369 https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2023.3270320
LuAG:Ce and LuYAG:Ce scintillation crystals grown under reducing conditions from W crucibles. Kofanov D., Gerasymov I., Sidletskiy O., Tkachenko S., Boyaryntseva Ya., Kurtsev D., Zelenskaya O., Okrushko O., Gorbacheva T., Viagin O., Maksimchuk P., Lebbou K. Optical Materials, 2022, 134, 113176 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2022.113176
Gerasymov I., Hubenko K., Viagin O., Boyaryntseva Ya., Shaposhnik A., Baumer V. Gorbacheva T., Zelenskaya O., Galenin E. Kurtsev D., Tkachenko S., Sidletskiy O, Characterization of LaGPS:Ce scintillation crystals obtained under a reducing atmosphere.. CrystEngComm, 2022, 24(40), pp. 7066–7072 https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ce01057g
Sidletskiy O., Gorbenko V., Zorenko T., Syrotych Yu., Kucerkova R., Mares J., Witkiwicz-Lukaszek S., Gerasymov Ia., Kurtsev D., Fedorov A., Zorenko Y. Composition Engineering of (Lu,Gd,Tb)3(Al,Ga)5O12:Ce Film/Gd3(Al,Ga)5O12:Ce Substrate Scintillators. Crystals, 2022, 12(10), 1366. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma15031249
L.Jia, J. Zhu, Y. Boyaryntseva, I. Gersymov, B. Grynyov, O. Sidletskiy, "Effect of Carbon Doping on F-Type Defects in YAG and YAG:Ce Crystals",
Phys. Status Solidi B 2021, 2100325. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pssb.202100325
Gorbenko, V.; Witkiewicz-Łukaszek, S.; Zorenko, T.; Syrotych, Y.; Mares, J.A.; Kucerkova, R.; Nikl, M.; Sidletskiy, O.; Fedorov, A.; Zorenko, Y., "Development of Composite Scintillators Based on the LuAG: Pr Single Crystalline Films and LuAG:Sc Single Crystals". Crystals 2021, 11, 846. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11080846

Dr. Ivan Yakymenko

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Nanomaterials, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University,

Research areas: Experimental nuclear physics, scintillators for the radiation detection

Skills and expertise: neutron detectors, experimental nuclear physics, crystal growing, nuclear electronics design, ultrafast data acquisition, MPPC, PMT, custom preamplifiers

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Dr. Aravinth Kumar Padmanaban

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. from Anna University, Chennai, TN, India.

Research Interest: Multiferroic, Piezoelectric materials, Topological Insulators, Structural Refinement, Crystal Growth, Synthesis, and Characterisation of Advanced Ceramics.