Scintillators for alpha and neutron radiations synthesized by room temperature sol-gel processing

Hee Jung Im; Carl Willis; Suree Saengkerdsub; Rajev Makote; Michelle D. Pawel; Sheng Dai

doi:10.1007/s10971-004-5775-7

Scintillators for alpha and neutron radiations synthesized by room temperature sol-gel processing

Hee Jung Im, Carl Willis, Suree Saengkerdsub, Rajev Makote, Michelle D. Pawel, Sheng Dai

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Abstract

Solid-state scintillating materials were synthesized by the co-doping of sol-gel components with neutron absorbers [⁶Li and ¹⁰B], organic fluorescence sensitizers such as salicylic acid and 2,5-diphenyloxazole (PPO) and activator 1,4-bis-2-(5-phenyloxazolyl)-benzene (POPOP). The room-temperature sol-gel process through the addition of organic polymers is the key to the successful entrapment of the organic sensitizers and activator in inorganic matrixes. These transparent or translucent sol-gel scintillators were evaluated for alpha radiation and neutron detections.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	117-123
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology
Volume	32
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-004-5775-7
State	Published - Dec 2004

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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed for the Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 by UT-Battelle, LLC. Funding for this work is through the support of the Department of Energy NA-22. This research was supported in part by the appointments for H.-J. Im and S. Saengkerdsub to the ORNL Research Associate Program, administered jointly by ORNL and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.

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Alpha detection
Neutron detector
Scintillator
Sol-gel

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