Nanoscale Engineering of Inorganic Composite Scintillation Materials

This review article considers the latest developments in the field of inorganic scintillation materials. Modern trends in the improvement of inorganic scintillation materials are based on engineering their features at the nanoscale level. The essential challenges to the fundamental steps of the tech...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Materials 2021-08, Vol.14 (17), p.4889
Main Authors: Korzhik, Mikhail, Fedorov, Andrei, Dosovitskiy, Georgy, Anniyev, Toyli, Vasilyev, Maxim, Khabashesku, Valery
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum
Ceramics
Chemical precipitation
Crystal structure
Crystallinity
Glass ceramics
Grain boundaries
Point defects
Radiation
Review
Scintillation
Single crystals
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:This review article considers the latest developments in the field of inorganic scintillation materials. Modern trends in the improvement of inorganic scintillation materials are based on engineering their features at the nanoscale level. The essential challenges to the fundamental steps of the technology of inorganic glass, glass ceramics, and ceramic scintillation materials are discussed. The advantage of co-precipitation over the solid-state synthesis of the raw material compositions, particularly those which include high vapor components is described. Methods to improve the scintillation parameters of the glass to the level of single crystals are considered. The move to crystalline systems with the compositional disorder to improve their scintillation properties is justified both theoretically and practically. A benefit of the implementation of the discussed matters into the technology of well-known glass and crystalline scintillation materials is demonstrated.
ISSN:1996-1944
1996-1944
DOI:10.3390/ma14174889