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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2003
Applicants:
Tsuguo Fukuda, Miyagi, JP;
Akira Yoshikawa, Miyagi, JP;
Takashi Tsuzaki, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Japan Science and Technology Agency, Kawaguchi-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C09K 11/80 (2006.01); C09K 11/78 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Disclosed is a luminescent material for scintillators, which comprises a single crystal of an Yb-containing mixed-crystal oxide having a base crystal consisting of a garnet single crystal or a borate single crystal. The oxide single crystal has a composition represented by either one selected from the group consisting of RAlO, RGaO, LiR(BO), LaRGaOand GdRGaO, wherein R is a mixture of Yb and either one of Y, Gd and Lu. The Yb as an element capable of forming an optically active state called CTS together with a neighboring negative ion (oxygen ion).