RADIATION SENSITIVE GLASS CONTAINING TRIVALENT CERIUM

Patent · Tue May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1962

OSTI ID:4790261

Ginther, R J

A radiation-sensitive glass for scintillation response to gammas and neutrons and Having many advantages over crystals and organic plastics may be prepared by incorporating trivalent cerium in certain alkali aluminoborate and alkali aluminosilicoborate glasses. The boron makes the glass a neutron detector. The effects of the glass composition on the pulse height of the scintillation response are discussed. The preferred relative glass composition is l mole Na/ sub 2/O + Li/sub 2/O, 0.25to 2 moles Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/, 2.5 to 4 moles B/sub 2/O/ su 3/ + SiO/sub 2/, and 0.1 to 0.3 moles Ce/sub 2/ O/sub 3/. D.L.C.

• Research Organization: Originating Research Org. not identified
• NSA Number: NSA-16-016892
• Assignee: U.S. Navy
• Patent Number(s): US 3032428
• OSTI ID: 4790261
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-62
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

PHYSICS
ALKALI METALS
ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS
ALUMINUM OXIDES
BORATES
BORON
BORON OXIDES
CERIUM
CERIUM OXIDES
COMPOUNDS
EFFICIENCY
GAMMA DETECTION
GLASS
LITHIUM OXIDES
NEUTRON DETECTION
PATENT
PREPARATION
PULSES
QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
QUANTITY RATIO
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SILICON COMPOUNDS
SILICON OXIDES
SODIUM OXIDES