Scintillating articles and method of making the same
First Claim
1. A scintillating article, comprising a substrate having coated thereon a thin film consisting essentially of a doped or undoped inorganic scintillating material selected from the group consisting of zinc silicate, yttrium silicate, rate earth silices, orthosilacates, and mixtures thereof, said inorganic scintillating material thin film (i) having a thickness of less than 100 micrometers and (ii) being devoid of any metal film coated thereon.
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Abstract
A scintillating article comprising a substrate coated with an inorganic scintillating material comprising a doped or undoped material selected from the group consissting of barium fluoride, calcium fluoride, zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, zinc silicate, bismuth germanate, fast cathode ray tube phosphors, yttrium silicate, rare earth silicates, orthosilicates, and mixtures thereof. Also disclosed is an appertaining method of forming such a scintillating article, comprising depositing the inorganic scintillating material by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the substrate is of fibrous form, e.g., a quartz optical quality fiber, which is coated with a scintillating material such as barium fluoride. The scintillating articles of the invention are usefully employed as detectors for ionizing particles in high energy physics applications, such as radiation track imaging and tracking chambers, calorimetry, synchrotron radiation electron detectors, and pixel detectors for active targets, as well as detector elements and high energy particle accelerators and other high rate systems.
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- 1. A scintillating article, comprising a substrate having coated thereon a thin film consisting essentially of a doped or undoped inorganic scintillating material selected from the group consisting of zinc silicate, yttrium silicate, rate earth silices, orthosilacates, and mixtures thereof, said inorganic scintillating material thin film (i) having a thickness of less than 100 micrometers and (ii) being devoid of any metal film coated thereon.
- 9. A scintillating article comprising a substrate having coated thereon a thin film consisting essentially of an inorganic scintillating material selected from the group consisting of barium fluoride, calcium fluoride, zinc oxide, zine sulfide, zinc silicate, bismuth emanate, fast cathode ray tube phosphors, yttrium silicate, rare earth silicates, orthosilicates, and mixtures thereof, said inorganic scintillating material thin film being doped with a metal dopant.
- 15. A method for forming on a substrate a scintillating layer consisting essentially of a doped or undoped inorganic scintillator material selected from the group consisting of barium fluoride, calcium fluoride, zinc oxide, zinc sulfide, zinc silicate, bismuth germanate, yttrium silicate, rare earth silicates, orthosilicates, and mixtures thereof, including the steps of depositing the inorganic scintillator material by chemical vapor deposition and doping he inorganic scintillator material with a metal dopant.
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