Arnold Burger, Select Recent Publications

1. Eric Lukosi, Elan Herrera, Daniel Hamm, Kyung-Min Lee, Brenden Wiggins, Pavel Trtik, Dayakar Penumadu, Stephen Young, Louis Santodonato, Hassina Bilheux, Arnold Burger, Liviu Matei, Ashley C Stowe. "Lithium indium diselenide: A new scintillator for neutron imaging," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, v.830, 2016, p. 104-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.063

2. G Calvert, C Guguschev, A Burger, M Groza, JJ Derby, RS Feigelson. "High speed growth of SrI2 scintillator crystals by the EFG process," Journal of Crystal Growth, v.455, 2016, p. 143-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2016.10.024

3. David Caudel, Michael McCurdy, Daniel M Fleetwood, Robert A Reed, Robert A Weller, Brandon Goodwin, Emmanuel Rowe, Vladimir Buliga, Michael Groza, Keivan Stassun, Arnold Burger. "Radiation damage of strontium iodide crystals due to irradiation by 137 Cs gamma rays: A novel approach to altering nonproportionality," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, v.835, 2016, p. 177-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.08.041

4. Elan Herrera, Daniel Hamm, Brenden Wiggins, Rob Milburn, Arnold Burger, Hassina Bilheux, Louis Santodonato, Ondrej Chvala, Ashley Stowe, Eric Lukosi. "Arnold Burger Arnold Burger LISe pixel detector for neutron imaging," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, v.833, 2016, p. 142-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.035  

5. Emmanuel Jackson, Saffron Little, Dana Franklin, Jennifer A. Gaddy, Steven M. Damo. "Expression, Purification and Antimicrobial Activity of S100A12," Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3791/55557 

6. A. Lakhtakia, D. E. Wolfe, M. W. Horn, J. Mazurowski, A. Burger, P. P. Banerjee. "Bioinspired multicontrollable metasurfaces and metamaterials for terahertz applications," SPIE Proceedings, v.10162, 2017, p. 101620V.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2258683

7. Pokhrel, A. Burger, M. Groza, Y. Mao. "Enhance the photoluminescence and radioluminescence of La 2 Zr 2 O 7: Eu 3+ core nanoparticles by coating with a thin Y 2 O 3 shell," Optical Materials, v.68, 2017, p. 35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2016.11.00 8

8. N. J. Cherepy, P. R. Beck, S. A. Payne, E. L. Swanberg, B. M. Wihl, S. E. Fisher, S. Hunter, P. A. Thelin, C. J. Delzer, S. Shahbazi, A. Burger, K. S. Shah, R. Hawrami, L. A. Boatner, M. Momayezi, K. Stevens, M. H. Randles, D. Solodovnikov. "History and current status of strontium iodide scintillators," SPIE Proceedings, v.10392, 2017, p. 1039202. 

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2276302    

9. A. C. Stowe, J. Preston, J. Bell, A. Burger. "Lithium indium diselenide pressed ceramics," SPIE Proceedings, v.10392, 2017, p. 103920N.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2276275

10. B. Wiggins, J. Bell, J. Woodward, B. Goodwin, K. Stassun, A. Burger, A. Stowe,. "Crystal growth of LiIn1? xGaxSe2 crystals," Journal of Crystal Growth, v.468, 2017, p. 326.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2016.10.051 

11. J. G. Bodnarik, D. K. Hamara, A. Burger, V. Buliga, J. C. Egner, M. Groza, W  M. Harris, L. Matei, K. G. Stassun, A. C. Stowe. "Neutron detector development for microsatellites," SPIE Proceedings, v.10392, 2017, p. 103920M.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2275682 

12.G. Cooper, A. Stowe, J. Preston, B. Wiggins, K. Stassun, A. Burger. "The Characterization and Optimization of Lithium Hafnium Chloride Crystal Scintillators for Neutron Detection," SciTech Connect, v.IROS172, 2017.  https://doi.org/10.2172/1410677  

13. C. Cardenas, A. Burger, B. Goodwin, M. Groza, M. Laubenstein, S. Nagorny, E. Rowe. "Pulse-shape discrimination with Cs2HfCl6 crystal scintillator," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, v.869, 2017, p. 63.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.041 

14.  S. Sahi, M. Groza, W. Zhang, P. A. Do, R. Kenarangui, A. Burger, J.Zhang, W. Chen. "High-loaded and transparent La x Ce1-x F3?polystyrene nanocomposite scintillators for radiation detection," Canadian Journal of Chemistry, v.95, 2017, p. 1233.  https://doi.org/10.1139/cjc-2017-0211 

15. C. Cardenas, A. Burger, M. L. DiVacri, B. Goodwin, M. Groza, M. Laubenstein, S. Nagorny, S. Nisi, E. Rowe. "Internal contamination of the Cs2HfCl6 crystal scintillator," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, v.872, 2017, p. 23.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.08.006  

16. E. D. Lukosi, E. H. Herrera, D. S. Hamm, A. Burger, A. C. Stowe. "Neutron imaging with lithium indium diselenide: Surface properties, spatial resolution, and computed tomography," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, v.872, 2017, p. 181.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.08.028   

17. E. Herrera, D. Hamm, A. Stowe, J. Preston, B. Wiggins, A. Burger, E. Lukos. "Neutron Imaging with Timepix Coupled Lithium Indium Diselenide," Journal of Imaging, v.4, 2017, p. 10.   https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging4010010

18. S. Lam, C. Guguschev, A. Burger, M. Hackett, S. Motakef. "Crystal growth and scintillation performance of Cs2HfCl6 and Cs2HfCl4Br2," Journal of Crystal Growth, v.483, 2018, p. 12,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2017.11.013

19. E. Brown, Z. D. Fleischman, L. D. Merkle, E. Rowe, A. Burger, S. A. Payne, M. Dubinskii. "Optical spectroscopy of holmium doped K2LaCl5," Journal of Luminescence, v.196, 2018, p.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.12.040

20.D. S. Hamm, M. Rust, E. H. Herrera, L. Matei, V. Buliga, M. Groza, A. Burger, A. Stowe, J. Preston, E. D. Lukosi. "Semiconducting lithium indium diselenide: Charge-carrier properties and the impacts of high flux thermal neutron irradiation," Applied Physics Letters, v.112, 2018, p. 242104.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5028269

21. E. Brown, Z. D. Fleischman, L. D. Merkle, E. Rowe, A. Burger, S. A. Payne, M. Dubinskii,. "Optical spectroscopy of holmium doped K2LaCl5," Journal of Luminescence, v.196, 2018, p. 221.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.12.040

22. E. Brown, Z. Fleischman, L. Merkle, E. Rowe, A. Burger, S. Payne, M. Dubinskiy. "Infrared absorption and fluorescence properties of Holmium doped Potassium Lanthanum Chloride," International Society for Optics and Photonics, v.10637, 2018, p. 10670X.  https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309578

23. E. Lukosi, D. Onken, D. Hamm, C. Brown, A. V. Ievlev, A. Burger, J. Preston, R. Williams, A. Stowe. "Intrinsic lithium indium diselenide: Scintillation properties and defect states," Journal of Luminescence, v.205, 2019, p. 346.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2018.09.023

24. Y. He, L. Matei, H. J. Jung, K. M. McCall, M. Chen, C. C. Stoumpos, Z. Liu, J. A. Peters, D. Y. Chung, B. W. Wessels, M. R. Wasielewski, V. P. Dravid, A. Burger, M. G. Kanatzidis. "High spectral resolution of gamma-rays at room temperature by perovskite CsPbBr3 single crystals," Nature Communications, v.9, 2018, p. 1609. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04073-3 

25. E. Rowe, W. B. Goodwin, P. Bhattacharya, G. Cooper, N. Schley, M. Groza, N. J. Cherepy, S. A. Payne, A. Burger. "Preparation, Structure and Scintillation of Cesiu m Hafnium Chloride Bromide Crystals," Journal of Crystal Growth, v.509, 2019, p. 124-128 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2018.08.033

26. Elsa Ariesanti, Rastgo Hawrami, Arnold Burger, Shariar Motakef. "Improved growth and scintillation properties of intrinsic, non-hygroscopic scintillator Cs2HfCl6," Journal of Luminescence, v.217, 2020, p. 116784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2019.116784

27. Ralph B James, Arnold Burger, Stephen A Payne. "Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXI," Proc. of SPIE Vol, v.11114, 2019, p. 1111401. http://toc.proceedings.com/51710webtoc.pdf

28. Rastgo Hawrami, Elsa Ariesanti, Vlad Buliga, Arnold Burger. "Thallium strontium iodide: A high efficiency scintillator for gamma-ray detection," Optical Materials, v.100, 2020, p. 109624.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2019.109624

29. Rastgo Hawrami, Elsa Ariesanti, Vlad Buliga, Liviu Matei, Shariar Motakef, Arnold Burger. "Advanced high-performance large diameter Cs2HfCl6 (CHC) and mixed halides scintillator," Journal of Crystal Growth, v.533, 2020, p. 125473.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2019.125473

30. Rastgo Hawrami, Elsa Ariesanti, Vladimir Buliga, Arnold Burger, Stephanie Lam, Shariar Motakef. "Tl2HfCl6 and Tl2ZrCl6: Intrinsic Tl-, Hf-, and Zr-based scintillators," Journal of Crystal Growth, v.531, 2020, p. 125316.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2019.125316

Recent Master’s Theses in the Burger Group

1) Bria Collier, “CHARACTERIZING THE MOISTURE SENSITIVITY OF Cs2HfCl6 AND Cs2HfCl4Br2”, Master’s thesis, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, 2020.

2) Krystal Ruiz-Rocha, “A Sea of Black Holes: Characterizing the Expected Signature of Stellar Origin Binaries in the LISA Band”, Master’s thesis, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, 2020.

6) Michelle Gomez, “Calibration of a DEXA Prototype Using Strontium Iodide Doped with Europium Coupled to a Silicon Photomultiplier for Bone Imaging”, Master’s thesis, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, 2020.

3) Kricia Ruano Espinoza, “Europium-doped strontium iodide (SrI2(Eu2+)) scintillator crystals in dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) for bone densitometry imaging”, Master’s thesis, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, 2020.

4) Aaron Hunsaker, “Production and Characterization of Ceramic Cs2HfCI6 for Gamma Ray Spectroscopy”, Master’s thesis, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, 2019.

5) Crisel Suarez, “Computational Methods for the Scintillator Cs2HfCl6 (CHC) and Solar Flares”, Master’s thesis, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, 2019.

6) Shawndise Beachem, “Study of the potential of europium doped strontium iodide in comparison to sodium iodide for optimum gamma camera parameters for SPECT imaging”, Master’s thesis, Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library, 2018.