A comprehensive review on zinc oxide bulk and nano-structured materials for ionizing radiation detection and measurement applications

RM Sahani, A Dixit - Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
The article reviews ionizing radiation detectors based on Zinc oxide structures such as bulk
single crystal, transparent ceramics, thin film, powder, nanostructures like nanoparticles …

[PDF][PDF] Scintillation Properties of Li-doped ZnO Translucent Ceramic.

T Kunikata, T Kato, D Shiratori… - Sensors & …, 2022 - sensors.myu-group.co.jp
We synthesized a 0.1% Li-doped ZnO translucent ceramic using spark plasma sintering
(SPS) and annealed it at 700 or 800 C in air. The photoluminescence (PL) and scintillation …

[PDF][PDF] Annealing Temperature Dependence of Scintillation Properties of Ga-doped ZnO Translucent Ceramics.

T Kunikata, T Kato, D Shiratori… - Sensors & …, 2023 - sensors.myu-group.co.jp
Ga-doped ZnO translucent ceramics were prepared by spark plasma sintering and annealed
at temperatures of 600, 650, 700, 750, and 800 C for 24 h in air. The scintillation and optical …

Hydrothermal growth of vertically aligned ZnO nanorods as potential scintillator materials for radiation detectors

MCM Angub, CJT Vergara, HAF Husay… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
We investigate the hydrothermal growth of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods to realize their
potential scintillator applications. Vertically aligned ZnO nanorods were successfully …

Recent Progress in Direct X-ray detectors Based on Metal Oxide Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: A Review

Y Li, X Wang, J Liang, L Zhang… - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Direct conversion of X-ray irradiation using a semiconductor material is an emerging
technology in medical diagnosis, material sciences and industrial non-destructive testing …

Efficient alpha radiation detector using low temperature hydrothermally grown ZnO: Ga nanorod scintillator

RM Sahani, C Kumari, A Pandya, A Dixit - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We report efficient detection of alpha radiation on highly textured and vertically aligned
along (002) Gallium-doped Zinc Oxide (ZnO: Ga) nanorods on a glass substrate with an …

Optical properties of hydrothermally deposited Ni and Co doped nanostructured ZnO thin films as scintillating coatings for beta-particles detection

E Chubenko, MW Alhamd, V Bondarenko - Journal of Luminescence, 2022 - Elsevier
The optical properties of ZnO films doped with the Ni and Co transition metals that were
hydrothermally deposited on a silicon substrate are discussed. The SEM, EDX, XRD and …

ZnO: Zn/6LiF scintillator—A low afterglow alternative to ZnS: Ag/6LiF for thermal neutron detection

GJ Sykora, EM Schooneveld, NJ Rhodes - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Current ZnS: Ag/6 LiF based scintillation detectors are often count rate limited by
the long lifetime afterglow in the scintillator. Despite this drawback, new instruments at …

Scintillation property of undoped NaI transparent ceramics

Y Yoshikawa, T Kato, D Nakauchi… - Japanese Journal of …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, NaI transparent ceramics were synthesized by the spark plasma sintering
method, also optical and scintillation properties were investigated. To evaluate the potential …

Scintillation properties of In-doped NaI transparent ceramics

Y Yoshikawa, T Kato, K Miyazaki, D Nakauchi… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In-doped NaI transparent ceramic scintillators were synthesized by the spark plasma
sintering method, and In-doped NaI single crystal was grown by the Bridgman–Stockbarger …