The power generation characteristics of many types of scintillator coupled with Si photodiodes under α-, β-, and X-ray irradiations were investigated. The current output of α-, β-, and X-ray ... Read More

Japan revised the dose limit for the lens of the eye in 2021 to 20 mSv/year on a five-year average, with a maximum of 50 mSv/year in any one year. This represents a significant reduction from the ... Read More

As dosimetric materials, undoped and Dy-doped 33.3LiO–66.7B2O3 glasses were synthesized by the melt-quenching method. Their photoluminescence and thermally stimulated luminescence spectra showe ... Read More

BaO–B2O3 glasses doped with different Er concentrations were synthesized by the melt-quenching technique. The Er concentrations were 1, 5, 10, and 15%. All the synthesized samples were transpar ... Read More

The photoluminescence and scintillation properties of Eu-doped (0.1, 1, 5, and 10 mol%) CaO–Al2O3–B2O3 glasses were investigated. The photoluminescence spectra showed sharp emission peaks at ... Read More

In this study, Ce-doped La2O3–Al2O3 glasses were prepared by the levitation method, a containerless glass-making method, and their optical and radiation-induced luminescence properties were inv ... Read More

We prepared a 1Eu2O3–13Bi2O3–12ZnO–74TeO2 glass (PG) and its glass ceramics (GC340, GC350, and GC360) and evaluated their luminescence properties for scintillators. GC340, GC350, and GC360 ... Read More

1.0% Nd-doped BaCl2 transparent ceramic and single crystal samples were respectively prepared by spark plasma sintering and the vertical Bridgman–Stockbarger method to compare their optical and ... Read More

Undoped and Eu-doped BaAl2S4 samples were synthesized by sulfurization using N2/CS2 gas flow. The XRD measurement indicated that the synthesized samples were a single phase of cubic BaAl2S4. The ... Read More

Bi-doped CaBPO5 was synthesized by the solid-state reaction method, and its radiophotoluminescence (RPL) properties were subsequently examined. Steady-state photoluminescence (PL) studies suggest ... Read More

Red-emitting scintillator nanoparticles based on Eu-doped Gd3Al3Ga2O12 were developed. Nanoparticles of 100–300 nm size were successfully obtained. The photoluminescence (PL) and X-ray-induced ... Read More

The radioluminescence and dose rate response of LaMgAl11O19 doped with rare earth single crystals were investigated. All the samples showed emission peaks at wavelengths longer than 800 nm corres ... Read More

Scintillation detectors, composed of scintillators and photodetectors, have recently been applied in various fields. Since the performance of scintillation detectors mainly depends on that of the ... Read More

A Sr3Y(PO4)3 single crystal was grown by the optical floating zone technique using four xenon arc lamps. The photoluminescence and scintillation properties in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV)–visib ... Read More

A 0.5% Cr-doped LiTaO3 single crystal was synthesized by the optical floating zone technique, and its scintillation properties were investigated. The X-ray diffraction pattern of the synthesized ... Read More

In this study, we prepared CaYAl3O7 single crystals doped with 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0% Dy by the floating zone method, and investigated their photoluminescence (PL) and thermally stimulated luminesce ... Read More

Ca8La2(1 − x)(PO4)6O2:xCe (x = 0.1, 0.3, 1, 3, and 10%) single crystals were synthesized by the floating zone method, and their photoluminescence and scintillation properties were investigated. ... Read More

In this study, we synthesized 0.1, 0.5, and 1% Dy-doped Sr3Gd(PO4)3 single crystals using a floating zone furnace to evaluate their thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL) properties. In the TSL ... Read More

In the present study, we investigated the photoluminescence (PL) and scintillation properties of Sm:CaHfO3. All Sm:CaHfO3 samples showed multiple PL emission peaks due to the 4f–4f transitions ... Read More

Tb-doped Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 (CTGS) single crystals with different concentrations were synthesized to evaluate their photoluminescence and radioluminescence properties. All the samples showed emission ... Read More

0.01, 0.1 and 0.5% Mn-doped CaB2O4 (CBO) crystals were grown by the floating zone technique and investigated in terms of their structurally, optically, and thermally stimulated luminescence (TSL) ... Read More

A scintillator for X-ray and gamma-ray detection must possess high light yield, good energy resolution, and high effective atomic number. In this study, we fabricated Tl2NaScCl6 crystals using th ... Read More

LiF/(K0.75Rb0.25)2CuCl3 composites were developed and their scintillation properties were investigated. Samples with mass ratios of LiF to (K0.75Rb0.25)2CuCl3 of 1:3, 1:2, 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 were ... Read More

Diarylethene, 2-bis [2-methyl-5-(5-trimethylsilylthiophen-2-yl) thiophen-3-yl]-3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5-hexafluorocyclopentene, films were fabricated by the conventional vacuum deposition method, and eva ... Read More