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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2011
Peter Hackenschmied, Nürnberg, DE;
Stefan Wirth, Erlangen, DE;
Peter Hackenschmied, Nürnberg, DE;
Stefan Wirth, Erlangen, DE;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method is disclosed, in at least one embodiment, for producing a scintillator for a radiation detector, in which the scintillator is produced in layers by depositing a scintillator material using a PVD process. By using a PVD process, owing to lower process temperatures of less than 300° C., it is possible to produce scintillators with decay times of less than 1.1 ns over large surfaces. In this way, the prerequisites for quantitative and energy-selective detection of individual radiation quanta can be satisfied even with fluxes of more than 10X-ray quanta/mm*s. At least one embodiment of the invention also relates to a scintillator produced by such a method.