Jiménez-Rey D, Zurro B, Rodríguez-Barquero L, Baciero A, Navarro M
Centro de Micro-Análisis de Materiales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, C/ Faraday 3, Campus de Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2010 Oct;81(10):10D317. doi: 10.1063/1.3496982.
ZnO:Ga is a promising, high time resolution candidate for use as a fast-ion-loss detector in TJ-II. We compare its ionoluminescence with that of the standard fast-ion-loss detector material, SrGa(2)S(4):Eu (also known as TG-Green), when irradiated by H(+) ions with a range of energies E≤60 keV using a dedicated laboratory setup. It is found that ZnO:Ga is a reasonably good candidate for detecting low energy (E<60 keV) ions as it has excellent time resolution; however, its sensitivity is about 100 times lower than TG-Green, potentially limiting it to applications with high energy ion loss signals.
