Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials - 2011: Volume 1341

Symposium U, 'Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials' (April 2011 MRS Spring Meeting) provided the latest research in nuclear radiation detection materials.

Michael Fiederle (Edited by), Arnold Burger (Edited by), Larry Franks (Edited by), Kelvin Lynn (Edited by), Dale L. Perry (Edited by), Kazuhito Yasuda (Edited by)

9781605113180, Materials Research Society

Hardback, published 16 January 2012

172 pages, 105 b/w illus. 9 tables
23.5 x 16 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg

Symposium U, 'Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials', held April 26–28 at the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California was a continuation of the 2009 symposium and provided the latest research in nuclear radiation detection materials. Types of detector materials include semiconductors and scintillators, which are represented by a variety of new scintillator materials; novel semiconductors; and traditional detection materials. There is a strong need for new materials and methods for a variety of radiation detection applications in this rapidly growing field. The symposium gave an overview of the crystal growth of radiation detector materials and the characterization and technology issues and moved on to discuss several important improvements for the development of future radiation detectors.

Part I. Scintillators: 1. Transparent Lu2O3:Eu ceramics Zachary Seeley
2. Nuclear radiation detection scintillators based on ZnSe(Te) crystals Volodymyr Ryzhikov
3. Nonlinear quenching rates in SrI2 and CsI scintillator hosts Joel Grim
4. Bridgman growth of SrI2 Michael Fiederle
Part II. CdZnTe: 5. Growth of detector-grade CZT by travelling heater method (THM): an advancement Utpal Roy
6. Low temperature crystal growth and characterization of Cd0.9Zn0.1Te for radiation detection applications Krishna Mandal
7. Improvement of CdMnTe detector performance by MnTe purification Ki Hyun Kim
8. Characterization of Pd impurities and finite-sized defects in detector grade CdZnTe Martine Duff
9. Effects of dislocations and sub-grain boundaries on X-ray response maps of CdZnTe radiation detectors Anwar Hossain
10. Study of structural defects in CdZnTe crystals by high resolution electron microscopy Anwar Hossain
Part III. Modelling and Calculations: 11. Performance evaluation of neutron detectors incorporating intrinsic Gd using a GEANT4 modeling approach Abigail Bickley
12. Material parameter basis for major and minor trends in nonproportionality of scintillators Qi Li
13. Dimensionally reduced heavy atom semiconductors as candidate materials for ?-ray detection: the case of Cs2Hg6S7 Mercouri Kanatzidis
Part IV. Other Materials: 14. Czochralski growth of indium iodide and other wide bandgap semiconductor compounds Aleksandar Ostrogorsky
15. Dysprosium-containing nanocrystals for thermal neutron detection Marek Osi?ski
16. Semiconductor detectors fabricated from TlBr crystals Keitaro Hitomi
17. UV emitting single crystalline film scintillators grown by LPE method: current status and perspective Yuriy Zorenko
18. Bismuth-loaded polymer scintillators for gamma ray spectroscopy Benjamin Rupert
19. Alkali metal chalcogenides for radiation detection Bruce Wessels
20. ZnCdSeTe semiconductor compounds: preparation and properties Vello Valdna
21. Comparative study of HgI2, PbI2 and TlBr films aimed for ionizing radiation detection in medical imaging Marcelo Mulato
22. Photoemission and cathodoluminescence of doped lithium tetraborate crystals being developed for neutron detection Christina Dugan.

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]