Nuclear radiation detection materials--2011 : symposium held April 25-29 2011, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Part I. Scintillators: 1. Transparent Lu2O3:Eu ceramics Zachary Seeley 2. Nuclear radiation detection scintillators based on ZnSe(Te) crystals Volodymyr Ryzhikov 3. Nonlinear quenching rates in SrI2 and CsI scintillator hosts Joel Grim 4. Bridgman growth of SrI2 Michael Fiederle Part II. CdZnTe: 5. Growth of detector-grade CZT by travelling heater method (THM): an advancement Utpal Roy 6. Low temperature crystal growth and characterization of Cd0.9Zn0.1Te for radiation detection applications Krishna Mandal 7. Improvement of CdMnTe detector performance by MnTe purification Ki Hyun Kim 8. Characterization of Pd impurities and finite-sized defects in detector grade CdZnTe Martine Duff 9. Effects of dislocations and sub-grain boundaries on X-ray response maps of CdZnTe radiation detectors Anwar Hossain 10. Study of structural defects in CdZnTe crystals by high resolution electron microscopy Anwar Hossain Part III. Modelling and Calculations: 11. Performance evaluation of neutron detectors incorporating intrinsic Gd using a GEANT4 modeling approach Abigail Bickley 12. Material parameter basis for major and minor trends in nonproportionality of scintillators Qi Li 13. Dimensionally reduced heavy atom semiconductors as candidate materials for gamma-ray detection: the case of Cs2Hg6S7 Mercouri Kanatzidis Part IV. Other Materials: 14. Czochralski growth of indium iodide and other wide bandgap semiconductor compounds Aleksandar Ostrogorsky 15. Dysprosium-containing nanocrystals for thermal neutron detection Marek Osinski 16. Semiconductor detectors fabricated from TlBr crystals Keitaro Hitomi 17. UV emitting single crystalline film scintillators grown by LPE method: current status and perspective Yuriy Zorenko 18. Bismuth-loaded polymer scintillators for gamma ray spectroscopy Benjamin Rupert 19. Alkali metal chalcogenides for radiation detection Bruce Wessels 20. ZnCdSeTe semiconductor compounds: preparation and properties Vello Valdna 21. Comparative study of HgI2, PbI2 and TlBr films aimed for ionizing radiation detection in medical imaging Marcelo Mulato 22. Photoemission and cathodoluminescence of doped lithium tetraborate crystals being developed for neutron detection Christina Dugan.