An ideal scintillator - ZnO:Sc for sub-nanosecond pulsed radiation detection

Kan Zhang; Xiaoping Ouyang; Zhaohui Song; Hetong Han; Yanbin Zuo; Xingyin Guan; Xinjian Tan; Zichuan Zhang; Junhong Liu

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2014.04.044

An ideal scintillator - ZnO:Sc for sub-nanosecond pulsed radiation detection

Kan Zhang
, Xiaoping Ouyang
, Zhaohui Song
, Hetong Han
, Yanbin Zuo
, Xingyin Guan
, Xinjian Tan
, Zichuan Zhang
, Junhong Liu

School of Management

Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology
China Nonferrous Metal Guilin Research Institute of Geology for Mineral Resource
Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract

ZnO-based scintillators are particularly well suited for use as ultrafast pulsed radiation detectors which have shown broad application prospects in various fields such as the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) diagnosis, the nuclear reaction mechanism, etc. Using the hydro-thermal method, a ZnO single-crystal doped with Scandium (ZnO:Sc) sample was prepared. As a new ZnO-based scintillator, the scintillation characteristics of ZnO:Sc have not been reported previously. In this paper, optical and scintillation characteristics of ZnO:Sc single-crystal were studied. Also a scintillation detector based on ZnO:Sc was designed. Excited by the alpha-particle, the rise time of ZnO:Sc detectors was from 162.5 to 170.7 ps, and the fall time was from 300.4 to 328.8 ps.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14-18
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	756
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2014.04.044
State	Published - 21 Aug 2014

Keywords

Pulsed radiation detectors
Scintillation detectors
Ultrafast scintillators
Zinc-oxide doped with Sc

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