Investigation of 3D ORAM materials as radiation detectors/dosimeters

Author

Phillips, Gary W. ; Readshaw, Amy K. ; Brown, Gerald O. ; Weiss, Richard G. ; Guardala, Noel A. ; Price, Jack L. ; Mueller, Susette C. ; Moscovitch, Marko

Author_Institution

US Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

734

Abstract

The effects of exposure of 3D GRAM materials to protons, alphas and ¹²C ions have been investigated in the energy range of 0.5 to 2.5 MeV per nucleon. A permanent change occurs in the properties of the materials due to irradiation. The exposed materials are observed to fluoresce under a confocal laser scanning microscope. The intensity and depth of the fluorescence is dependent on the type and energy of the particles to which the materials were exposed. These properties should prove useful for charged particle and neutron dosimetry/detector applications

Keywords

alpha-particle detection; dosimeters; optical storage; proton detection; random-access storage; solid-state nuclear track detectors; 3D ORAM materials; confocal laser scanning microscope; neutron dosimetry; radiation detectors; radiation dosimeters; three-dimensional optical random access memories; Application software; Dosimetry; Fluorescence; Laser beams; Microscopy; Neutrons; Optical materials; Particle tracking; Protons; Radiation detectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium, 1999. Conference Record. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5696-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1999.845772

Filename

845772