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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
May. 30, 2024
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, Llc, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Melinda Dominique Sweany, Oakland, CA (US);
Kyle James Weinfurther, Livermore, CA (US);
Patrick L. Feng, Livermore, CA (US);
Peter Anthony Marleau, Dublin, CA (US);
National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Abstract
A scintillator having a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) embedded therein is described. The scintillator comprises an amorphous organic glass scintillator (OGS) material having a glass transition temperature above which the OGS material behaves as a supercooled or stable liquid, and a SiPM having a lead coupled thereto and having a temperature tolerance greater than the glass transition temperature of the OGS material. The SiPM is positioned in the OGS material while the OGS material is in a liquid state above the glass transition temperature, and the OGS material is cooled to an amorphous solid state below the glass transition temperature with the SiPM embedded therein.