Materials and device incorporating phoshors
AssigneeBritish Nuclear Fuels plc
InventorsTerence Alan King, Stephen Shuttleworth, Sven Glyn Roden
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Abstract
A storage phosphor material comprising a storage phosphor of the kind in which electrons excited by incident ionizing radiation may be trapped in stable trap sites and subsequently released by stimulation such as photostimulation, wherein the phosphor is contained within a host matrix which comprises a sol-gel glass in which the storage phosphor is incorporated as a dopant.
Claims3
A process of preparing a storage phosphor material comprising a storage phosphor within a porous glass or dried gel matrix, said method comprising doping a porous glass or dried gel matrix by diffusing an active phosphor thereby uniformly distributing the active phosphor through the porous matrix.
A process of preparing a storage phosphor material comprising a storage phosphor within a porous glass or dried gel matrix, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) preparing a sol of Si(OH).sub.4 and a phosphor;
- (b) forming the sol of step (a) into a three-dimensional network, and thereafter
- (c) drying, ageing and sintering the network over temperatures in the range of 100.degree. C. to 1000.degree. to form a porous glass or dried gel matrix in which the phosphor is uniformly distributed.
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