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Doping Of Fluorchlorozirconate And Borate-Silica Glass Ceramics For Medical Imaging And Fast Neutron Scintillation, Julie Elizabeth Swafford

Masters Theses

Borate silica glass ceramics were produced for neutron scintillation. The Glass ceramics were doped with europium fluoride [EuF₂] and cerium chloride [CeCl₃]. Isotopic lithium fluoride [⁶LiF] and boron oxide [¹⁰B₂O₃] were used in most samples while non-isotopic lithium fluoride [LiF] and boron oxide [ B₂O₃] were used in the rest. When exposed to a neutron beam, samples doped with europium fluoride [EuF₂] scintillated while samples doped with cerium chloride [CeCl₃] did not. This contradicts current literature on fast scintillation. What …