The final summer school for the ASCIMAT project was held in Prague from 7-8 September 2018. The event was hosted by FZU, focusing on scintillation, dosimetric and phosphor materials and was held before the LUMEDETR 2018 conference. During its two-day programme, leading experts in respective fields provided lectures related to material preparation technology, advanced characterization methods and applications.
It included 16 lectures given by experts in scintillation, dosimetric and phosphor materials. In particular, the presentations by the team leaders of the consortium partners provided a broad overview of the ASCIMAT research topics:
- Fast timing and application in medical and high energy physics field (E. Auffray),
- Nanoparticle physics and their potential for scintillator applications (C. Dujardin),
- Description and role of defects participating in energy transfer processes in scintillation materials (A. Vedda), and
- General description of scintillation mechanism and its particular features in selected material groups (M. Nikl).
These presentations gave an insight into experimental and theoretical research issues as well as related manufacturing technologies for the discussed scintillation materials. The presentations are available for downloading below:
Anne-Laure Bulin, University of Grenoble Alpes (FR):
Nanoscintillators-induced photodynamic therapy: overcoming light penetration for treatment of deep localised tumors
Petr Průša, Czech Technical University (CZ): Dosimetric materials applications–TSL and OSL
Etiennette Auffray,CERN (CH): Scintillating Crystals From High Energy Physics to Medical Imaging
Jan Pejchal, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences (CZ): Single crystal scintillators–preparation technologies
Christophe Dujardin, Institute of Light and Matter, University Lyon1 (FR): Specificities of nanoscintillators: processes and applications
Vitezslav Jary, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences (CZ): LED technology and LED phosphors
Julien HOUEL, Institute of Light and Matter, University Lyon1 (FR): Introduction to single nano-object spectroscopy
Mikhail G. Brik, University of Tartu (EE):
A review of basic spectroscopic properties of the ions with d3 electronic configurations, such as Cr3+and Mn4+, for solid state lighting applications
Martin, Nikl, Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences (CZ): Scintillator materials – physical mechanism, role of defects and bottlenecks
Marco Pizzichemi, CERN (CH): Principle of PET and some examples of PET developed within the Crystal Clear Collaboration
Maj. Jiri Janda, NBC Defence Institute (CZ) : Scintillation and dosimetric materials in military applications
Anna Vedda, University of Milano-Bicocca (IT): Characterization of defects in scintillators and phosphors
Eduardo G. Yukihara, Oklahoma State University (USA): The basics of TSL and OSL
At the end of the first day, short excursions were organized to a) the chemical laboratories of the Czech Technical University where scintillation nanoparticle technology has been established and was presented by Dr. V. Cuba) and b) FZU in Cukrovarnicka where micropulling down technology for oxide and halide single crystal growth of scintillators has been recently installed and was presented by Dr. J. Pejchal.
The school was organized for university and PhD students and young scientists under the age of 35 years. It attracted 40 international participants from across Europe, China, Mexico and Russia.
The complete programme during the summer school session is available here.
