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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2014
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Mohit Tyagi, Mumbai, IN;
Merry Koschan, Knoxville, TN (US);
Charles L. Melcher, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Samuel Bradley Donnald, Millington, TN (US);
University of Tennessee Research Foundation, Knoxville, TN (US);
Abstract
A method of tailoring the properties of garnet-type scintillators to meet the particular needs of different applications is described. More particularly, codoping scintillators, such as GdGaAlO, GdGaAlO, or other rare earth gallium aluminum garnets, with different ions can modify the scintillation light yield, decay time, rise time, energy resolution, proportionality, and/or sensitivity to light exposure. Also provided are the codoped garnet-type scintillators themselves, radiation detectors and related devices comprising the codoped garnet-type scintillators, and methods of using the radiation detectors to detect gamma rays, X-rays, cosmic rays, and particles having an energy of 1 keV or greater.