Growth and Properties of Novel Scintillator Crystals
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2025 | Viewed by 541
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Interests: single crystal; scintillator; piezoelectric material; thermoelectric material; crystal growth
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Interests: solid scintillation detectors; aluminum compounds; cerium; crystal growth from melt; gadolinium compounds; luminescence; lutetium compounds; photoluminescence; scintillation; scintillation counters
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Dear Colleagues,
Scintillator single crystals have been developed for some applications using radiation detectors in medical, environmental and security fields to improve the sensitivity of radiation detection and spatial resolution. Novel radiation detectors have also been developed using scintillator single crystals. In recent years, growth methods of scintillator single crystals have been improved, and various novel scintillator crystals have been developed using these methods. In addition, the developed growth technique of bulk single crystals and shape-controlled single crystals has contributed to the mass production of scintillator single crystals and the development of novel radiation detectors. Self-organized eutectic scintillator crystals grown using unidirectional solidification and scintillator nanoparticle crystals have shown great scintillation properties.
Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on the crystal growth and scintillation properties of novel scintillator crystals, as well as on the crystal growth techniques of scintillator crystals.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel scintillator crystals (oxide, fluoride, halide and others);
- Eutectic scintillator crystals;
- Nanoparticle scintillator crystals;
- Shape-controlled scintillator crystals;
- Growth techniques for bulk single crystals of scintillator materials;
- Growth techniques for shape-controlled single crystals of scintillator materials;
- Fabrication techniques for nanoparticle crystals of scintillator materials.
Dr. Yuui Yokota
Dr. Takahiko Horiai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- novel scintillator crystals
- halide scintillator crystals
- eutectic scintillator crystals
- nanoparticle scintillator crystals
- shape-controlled scintillator crystals
- novel and modified growth method
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