Design and Implementation of a Facility for Discovering New Scintillator Materials

Author

Derenzo, Stephen E. ; Boswell, Martin S. ; Bourret-Courchesne, Edith ; Boutchko, Rostyslav ; Budinger, Thomas F. ; Canning, Andrew ; Hanrahan, Stephen M. ; Janecek, Martin ; Peng, Qiyu ; Porter-Chapman, Yetta ; Powell, James D. ; Ramsey, Christopher A. ;

Author_Institution

Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA

Volume

55

Issue

3

fYear

2008

fDate

6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1458

Lastpage

1463

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 diffractometry 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.

Keywords

X-ray diffractometers; cerium; high energy physics instrumentation computing; luminescence; phosphors; solid scintillation detectors; yttrium compounds; YAlO₃:Ce; automated furnace arrays; computer-controlled sample; diffractometery; dual-beam X-ray generator; inorganic crystalline samples; luminescence spectroscopy; network-accessible database management system; optical spectrometer; potential scintillation detector materials; pulsed X-ray generator; robotic dispenser; time response measurements; Crystalline materials; Crystallization; Inorganic materials; Optical arrays; Optical materials; Optical pulse generation; Pulse measurements; Scintillation counters; Spectroscopy; Time measurement; Crystalline compounds; phosphors; radioluminescence; scintillation detector material discovery;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2008.921932

Filename

4545106