[DXR1-3(Invited)]Evaluation of Ionizing Radiation Induced Luminescence Properties of Rare Earth Doped Sesquioxide Single Crystals Grown by the Floating Zone Method
*Takayuki Yanagida1, Daisuke Nakauchi1, Kai Okazaki1, Kenichi Watanabe2, Takumi Kato1, Noriaki Kawaguchi1(1. Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), 2. Kyushu University (Japan))
Keywords:
scintillator,radiation detector,single crystal
Phosphors for ionizing radiation detection have played an important role for radiation imaging in many application fields such as medical and security purpose. The present work focuses on rare earth doped sesquioxide single crystals for scintillator detectors. Among the prepared samples, especially, Tb- and Eu-doped sesquioxide showed excellent scintillation characteristics.