Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC

Lindsay T Sexton

Scott Thomas Retterer

Steven M Serkiz

Joseph V Cordaro

Christopher S McWhorter

Roderick E Fuentes

Ricardo D Torres

José Cortes-Concepción

Photonic crystal scintillators and their methods of manufacture are provided. Exemplary methods of manufacture include using a highly-ordered porous anodic alumina membrane as a pattern transfer mask for either the etching of underlying material or for the deposition of additional material onto the surface of a scintillator. Exemplary detectors utilizing such photonic crystal scintillators are also provided.

Photonic crystal scintillators and methods of manufacture

Anodes for proportional radiation counters and a process of making the anodes is provided. The nano-sized anodes when present within an anode array provide: significantly higher detection efficiencies due to the inherently higher electric field, are amenable to miniaturization, have low power requirements, and exhibit a small electromagnetic field signal. The nano-sized anodes with the incorporation of neutron absorbing elements (e.g.,B) allow the use of neutron detectors that do not useHe.

Nano structural anodes for radiation detectors

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Aiken, SC, United States of America

Lindsay T Sexton