US 12,105,231 B2
Scintillator array for radiation detection
Joseph Carlson, Castro Valley, CA (US); Patrick L. Feng, Livermore, CA (US); Nicholas Myllenbeck, Livermore, CA (US); Huu Tran, San Jose, CA (US); Lucas Nguyen, Oakland, CA (US); Melinda Sweany, Oakland, CA (US); and Peter Marleau, Dublin, CA (US)
Assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Filed by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, Albuquerque, NM (US)
Filed on May 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/144,544.
Application 18/144,544 is a division of application No. 17/158,198, filed on Jan. 26, 2021, granted, now 11,681,055.
Prior Publication US 2023/0314634 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G01T 1/20 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01)
CPC G01T 1/2018 (2013.01) [H01L 27/14663 (2013.01); H01L 27/14689 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for making a radiation detector, the method comprising:
providing a photodetector;
providing a mold, the mold having an interior cavity;
flowing an amorphous scintillator material into the interior cavity of the mold, the amorphous scintillator material comprising an organic glass scintillator (OGS) material and at a plasticizer additive, wherein the plasticizer additive is present in the amorphous scintillator material at a concentration of between 1% and 10% of a mass of the amorphous scintillator material;
cooling the amorphous scintillator material within the interior cavity to form a scintillator; and
coupling the mold to the photodetector such that the photodetector receives light that is emitted by the scintillator responsive to incidence of radiation at the scintillator.