Radiation detectors

  • Optimizing the optical properties of materials allowing new designs and systems for high energy radiation detectors;
  • Enhance the optical properties of highly transparent ceramics intentionally doped with activators such as RE and TM ions promoting higher luminescence intensity and luminescence quantum yield by exploring the parity-allowed transitions of the RE ions (such as Nd, Er, Tm, etc);
  • Develop and characterize VUV detectors based on RE-activated ceramic oxides for high-sensitivity scintillators with short decay times and short afterglow after X-ray and gamma ray irradiation; 4. Develop efficient emission of crystals in the VUV allowing a perfect match with the recently developed position-sensitive gaseous photomultipliers based on CsI photocathodes. This combination will provide efficient high resolution cameras for functional medical imaging, namely, SPECT and PET scanners;