Journal of the Korean Physical Society

Korean Physical Society (한국물리학회)
권호 표지
DOI QR코드

DOI QR Code

Improved 3D Printing Plastic Scintillator Fabrication

  • Son, Jaebum (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Kim, Dong Geon (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, Sangmin (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Park, Junesic (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Kim, Yonghyun (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Schaarschmidt, Thomas (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Kim, Yong Kyun (Department of Nuclear Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • Received : 2018.08.14
  • Accepted : 2018.09.06
  • Published : 2018.10.15
⟨ Previous Next ⟩

Abstract

3D printing techniques can be widely used for various applications owing to their fast speed, convenience, and customized shape output. The 3D printing technique is applicable to plastic scintillator fabrication which typically uses polymerization. Currently, research on application of the 3D printing technique based on photopolymerization to plastic scintillator fabrication is being pursued. However, performance of the photopolymerized scintillators reported till now is lower than that of commercial plastic scintillators (~ 30%). We have carried out research on performance improvement of the scintillator fabricated by the photopolymerization, for radiation dose measurement. Photopolymer resin with novel recipe based on acrylic monomer and naphthalene was used to fabricate the scintillator instead of the photopolymer resin based on styrene, which is typically used as the monomer for commercial scintillator. 3D printer with digital light processing was used for the photopolymerization of the photopolymer resin. As a result, light output performance of the fabricated plastic scintillator was about 67% compared with that of the commercial plastic scintillator, BC-408. The performance of the scintillator fabricated by the photopolymerization was thus improved to more than two times that obtained by previous researchers. This is sufficient to be applied to the radiation dose measurement with high dose rates such as radiation therapy. It also demonstrated the applicability of the 3D printing technique in scintillator fabrication.

Keywords

Acknowledgement

Supported by : National Research Foundation

References

  1. G. F. Knoll, Radiation detection and measurement, third ed. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1999).
  2. Y. Mishnayot, M. Layani, I. Cooperstein, S. Magdassi and G. Ron, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85, 085102 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4891703
  3. J. Zhu, Y. Ding, J. Zhu, D. Qi, M. Su et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A 817, 30 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.02.023
  4. S. Lee, J. Son, D. G. Kim, J. Choi and Y. K. Kim, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A (2018) (in review).
  5. W. A. Green, Industrial photoinitiators: a technical guide (CRC Press, Florida, 2010).
  6. G-H. Wu and S-H. Hsu, J. Med. Biol. Eng. 35, 285 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40846-015-0038-3
  7. J. B. Birks, The theory and practice of scintillation counting (Pergamon Press Ltd., Oxford, 1964).
  8. M. Furst and H. Kallmann, Phys. Rev. 97, 583 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.97.583
  9. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), https://www.nist.gov/.
  10. Saint-Gobain Crystals, BC-400, BC-404, BC-408, BC-412, BC-416 data sheet (2016).
  11. M. Bertolaccini, S. Cova and C. Bussolatti, in Proc. Nucl. Electr. Symp. (Versailles, France, 1968).
  12. M. Moszynski, M. Kapusta, M. Mayhugh, D. Wolski, S. O. Flyckt et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 44, 1052 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1109/23.603803
  13. C. H. Lee, J. Son, T-H. Kim and Y. K. Kim, Nucl. Eng. Tech. 49, 592 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.net.2016.10.001
  14. M. Kim, H. Kang, H. J. Kim, W. Kim, H. Park and S. Kim, J. Nucl. Sci. Tech. Suppl. 5, 586 (2008).
  15. Hamamatsu photonics, Photomultiplier tubes and related products (2016).
  16. Advanced Photonix, Inc., Non-Cooled Large Area UV Silicon Avalanche Photodiode.

Cited by

  1. 3D printing of gaseous radiation detectors vol.14, pp.12, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/14/12/p12005
  2. Characteristics of 3D Printed Plastic Scintillator vol.225, pp.None, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202022501005
  3. Attempting to prepare a plastic scintillator from a biobased polymer vol.137, pp.21, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/app.48724
  4. Characterization of novel 3D printed plastic scintillation dosimeters vol.6, pp.5, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1088/2057-1976/aba880
  5. 3D Printing Neutron Detectors using Scintillating BN/ZnS Resin vol.16, pp.1, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/01/p01003