High-throughput production of LuAG-based highly luminescent thick film scintillators for radiation detection and imaging.

ABSTRACT: Radiography is non-destructive imaging for engineering, medical diagnostics, airport security checks, and decontamination activities in nuclear plants. Inorganic scintillators are phosphor materials that convert radiation into visible photons with high luminescence and fast response, and scintillators with a few tens of micrometers thickness can improve sensitivity in radiation detection and imaging. To date, a production method for thick film scintillators is a time and cost consuming way of slicing and poshing bulk single crystals and transparent ceramics. Here, the chemically vapor deposited Ce³⁺-doped Lu₃Al₅O₁₂ thick film scintillators (CVD-Ce³⁺:LuAG) with a thickness of 1-25 μm were produced at deposition time of 1-30 min. Numeric

SUBMITTER: Matsumoto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9652359 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature