Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials - 2011: Volume 1341
MRS Proceedings Series

Symposium U, 'Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials', held April 26?28 at the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California was a continuation of the 2009 symposium and provided the latest research in nuclear radiation detection materials. Types of detector materials include semiconductors and scintillators, which are represented by a variety of new scintillator materials; novel semiconductors; and traditional detection materials. There is a strong need for new materials and methods for a variety of radiation detection applications in this rapidly growing field. The symposium gave an overview of the crystal growth of radiation detector materials and the characterization and technology issues and moved on to discuss several important improvements for the development of future radiation detectors.

Part I. Scintillators: 1. Transparent Lu2O3:Eu ceramics Zachary Seeley; 2. Nuclear radiation detection scintillators based on ZnSe(Te) crystals Volodymyr Ryzhikov; 3. Nonlinear quenching rates in SrI2 and CsI scintillator hosts Joel Grim; 4. Bridgman growth of SrI2 Michael Fiederle; Part II. CdZnTe: 5. Growth of detector-grade CZT by travelling heater method (THM): an advancement Utpal Roy; 6. Low temperature crystal growth and characterization of Cd0.9Zn0.1Te for radiation detection applications Krishna Mandal; 7. Improvement of CdMnTe detector performance by MnTe purification Ki Hyun Kim; 8. Characterization of Pd impurities and finite-sized defects in detector grade CdZnTe Martine Duff; 9. Effects of dislocations and sub-grain boundaries on X-ray response maps of CdZnTe radiation detectors Anwar Hossain; 10. Study of structural defects in CdZnTe crystals by high resolution electron microscopy Anwar Hossain; Part III. Modelling and Calculations: 11. Performance evaluation of neutron detectors incorporating intrinsic Gd using a GEANT4 modeling approach Abigail Bickley; 12. Material parameter basis for major and minor trends in nonproportionality of scintillators Qi Li; 13. Dimensionally reduced heavy atom semiconductors as candidate materials for γ-ray detection: the case of Cs2Hg6S7 Mercouri Kanatzidis; Part IV. Other Materials: 14. Czochralski growth of indium iodide and other wide bandgap semiconductor compounds Aleksandar Ostrogorsky; 15. Dysprosium-containing nanocrystals for thermal neutron detection Marek Osiński; 16. Semiconductor detectors fabricated from TlBr crystals Keitaro Hitomi; 17. UV emitting single crystalline film scintillators grown by LPE method: current status and perspective Yuriy Zorenko; 18. Bismuth-loaded polymer scintillators for gamma ray spectroscopy Benjamin Rupert; 19. Alkali metal chalcogenides for radiation detection Bruce Wessels; 20. ZnCdSeTe semiconductor compounds: preparation and properties Vello Valdna; 21. Comparative study of HgI2, PbI2 and TlBr films aimed for ionizing radiation detection in medical imaging Marcelo Mulato; 22. Photoemission and cathodoluminescence of doped lithium tetraborate crystals being developed for neutron detection Christina Dugan.