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Title: Lanthanide doped strontium-barium cesium halide scintillators

Abstract

The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising an optionally lanthanide-doped strontium-barium, optionally cesium, halide, useful for detecting nuclear material.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1183903
Patent Number(s):
9053832
Application Number:
13/272,152
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
C - CHEMISTRY C09 - DYES C09K - MATERIALS FOR MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
C - CHEMISTRY C30 - CRYSTAL GROWTH C30B - SINGLE-CRYSTAL-GROWTH
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Citation Formats

Bizarri, Gregory, Bourret-Courchesne, Edith, Derenzo, Stephen E., Borade, Ramesh B., Gundiah, Gautam, Yan, Zewu, Hanrahan, Stephen M., Chaudhry, Anurag, and Canning, Andrew. Lanthanide doped strontium-barium cesium halide scintillators. United States: N. p., 2015. Web.
Bizarri, Gregory, Bourret-Courchesne, Edith, Derenzo, Stephen E., Borade, Ramesh B., Gundiah, Gautam, Yan, Zewu, Hanrahan, Stephen M., Chaudhry, Anurag, & Canning, Andrew. Lanthanide doped strontium-barium cesium halide scintillators. United States.
Bizarri, Gregory, Bourret-Courchesne, Edith, Derenzo, Stephen E., Borade, Ramesh B., Gundiah, Gautam, Yan, Zewu, Hanrahan, Stephen M., Chaudhry, Anurag, and Canning, Andrew. Tue . "Lanthanide doped strontium-barium cesium halide scintillators". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1183903.
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abstractNote = {The present invention provides for a composition comprising an inorganic scintillator comprising an optionally lanthanide-doped strontium-barium, optionally cesium, halide, useful for detecting nuclear material.},
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