Rational design of binary halide scintillators via data mining

Autor: Chang Sun Kong, Krishna Rajan
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 680:145-154
ISSN: 0168-9002
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2012.03.050
Popis: We introduce a new search strategy for the development of novel inorganic scintillators. For designing new scintillation host media having the improved properties, the potential candidate materials were chosen by using a chemical selection scheme based on a multi-dimensional similarity metric. For the quantitative assessment of the chosen materials, predictive models based on informatics were built by correlating a set of key parameters which reflect the features of the host materials with the performance of inorganic scintillators. The resulting design rules generated from the relationships serve as a guide to identify HfI 4 and TaI 5 as two new host lattices with high light yield. The method we have outlined here serves as a new computational template based statistical learning method to search for new inorganic scintillators with targeted properties.
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