A team of SUNY Poly researchers led by Professor of Nanoscience Dr. Serge Oktyabrsky, with researchers from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Purdue University, fabricated and investigated novel waveguiding nanomaterial comprising quantum dots embedded into a semiconductor matrix that can produce scintillation detectors with exceptional speed and light yield.

These properties make the research potentially important for a number of applications, including those related to nuclear security, medical imaging, and high-energy physics.

Notably, the quantum dot structures highlighted in the original paper published by MRS Advances, "Parameters of fast and high-yield InAs/GaAs quantum dot semiconductor scintillator," are "the fastest high-yield scintillation material reported." 

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