학술논문

Design and Implementation of a Facility for Discovering New Scintillator Materials
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on. 55(3):1458-1463 Jun, 2008
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Bioengineering
Optical pulse generation
Pulse measurements
Crystalline materials
Optical arrays
Spectroscopy
Time measurement
Crystallization
Scintillation counters
Inorganic materials
Optical materials
Crystalline compounds
phosphors
radioluminescence
scintillation detector material discovery
Language
ISSN
0018-9499
1558-1578
Abstract
We describe the design and operation of a high-throughput facility for synthesizing thousands of inorganic crystalline samples per year and evaluating them as potential scintillation detector materials. This facility includes a robotic dispenser, arrays of automated furnaces, a dual-beam X-ray generator for diffractometery and luminescence spectroscopy, a pulsed X-ray generator for time response measurements, computer-controlled sample changers, an optical spectrometer, and a network-accessible database management system that captures all synthesis and measurement data.