Fyzikalni Ustav Av Cr, V.v.i.

Crytur, Spol. S.r.o.

Pavel Bohácek

Jindrich Houzvicka

Petr Horodyský

Karel Blazek

Martin Nikl

Currently, the known method of shortening the scintillation response of scintillation material is to suppress the amplitude-minor slower components of the scintillation response, whereas the possibilities of significant shortening of the amplitude-dominant component of the scintillation response in this method are limited. The invention concerns the method of shortening the scintillation response of scintillator luminescence centres which uses co-doping with Ce or Pr together with co-doping with ions from the lanthanoids, 3d transition metals, 4d transition metals or 5sor 6sions group. Having had the luminescence centres electrons excited as a result of absorbed electromagnetic radiation, the scintillator created in this method is capable of taking away a part of the energy from the excited luminescence centres via a non-radiative energy transfer, which results in a significant shortening of the time of duration of the amplitude-dominant component of the scintillation response.

Growing community of inventors

Prague, Czechia

Pavel Bohácek