Radiation detectors play a crucial role in society, with extensive applications from communications and security scanning to medical imaging, including radiography, computer tomography scans and positron emission tomography. Although existing commercial technologies provide adequate results, they come with inherent drawbacks, including slow response times, suboptimal luminescence efficiencies, and limited tunability over a range of energies. They also typically rely on costly and energy-intensive production processes at elevated temperatures. Emerging materials such as halide perovskites (and derivatives), organic semiconductors and porous networks have recently attracted attention as promising materials for a new generation of radiation detectors, covering from optical wavelengths and beyond to ionising radiation such as X-rays and high energy particles, which can revolutionise technology by taking advantage of their light-weight, low temperature, low-dose and fast response character. The rapid progress in the field, with photon counting detection capabilities recently demonstrated, is in conjunction with several open questions that drive an active debate. This symposium will attract the work of a broad interdisciplinary research community comprised of synthetic chemists, spectroscopists, device engineers and theoreticians focused on designing, developing and characterising emerging radiation detectors.
- Photodetectors
- Optical and IR communications
- X- and Gamma ray detectors
- Particle detectors
- Dosimeters
- Scintillators
Silvia Colella is a researcher at the National research council, CNR-NANOTEC, in Bari, Italy. She received her PhD in “Nanoscience” at National Nanotechnology Laboratory in Lecce (Italy), in 2010. She has been visiting student in the group of professor Luisa De Cola at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster (Germany), where she dealt with the synthesis and photophysical characterization of electroluminescent metal complexes. In 2010 she joined BASF – The Chemical Company (Strasbourg) with a Marie Curie fellowship as experienced researcher in the frame of the EU project ITN SUPERIOR, working on Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. She continued as post-doc researcher at the Institut de science et ingénierie supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg, France. In 2012 she started her independent research in Lecce (Italy) at the University of Salento in collaboration with CNR-NANOTEC, the team focused on the conception and optoelectronic characterization of innovative optoelectronic devices based on hybrid halide perovskites. Many high impact publication were produced in this time interval, among them one of the first report in halide perovskite for PV exploitation (Colella et al, Chemistry of Materials, 2013 25, 4613-4618).
Silvia Colella is author of >70 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international journals (including Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, ACS Energy Letters).
Her scientific production led to >3000 total citations and a h-index of 28 (https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=S2TZd_4AAAAJ&hl=it; https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=24170650100).
From 2019, A.M. serves as Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at Department of Materials Science. His research is focused on the development of advanced hybrid functional nanomaterials for applications in photonics and theranostics in collaboration with several national and international universities and research institutes. He started his research by working on hybrid organic/inorganic light NIR emitters based on lanthanides ions and photonic crystals for lighting and telecom, in the framework of several national and international project and networks. The topic of the current research is the design and study of advanced materials and nanostructured materials for photon managing and scintillation applications. The experimental activity is centered on CW and ultrafast TRPL photoluminescence spectroscopy, transient absorption spectroscopy, confocal imaging, IR and FT-IR spectroscopy to tackle both fundamental and applicative aspects aimed at the development of materials to implemented real-world technologies.
Matt Wilson