@article{21584,
  abstract     = {Bombardment of materials by high-energy particles often leads to light emission in a process known as scintillation. Scintillation has widespread applications in medical imaging, x-ray nondestructive inspection, electron microscopy, and high-energy particle detectors. Most research focuses on finding materials with brighter, faster, and more controlled scintillation. We developed a unified theory of nanophotonic scintillators that accounts for the key aspects of scintillation: energy loss by high-energy particles, and light emission by non-equilibrium electrons in nanostructured optical systems. We then devised an approach based on integrating nanophotonic structures into scintillators to enhance their emission, obtaining nearly an order-of-magnitude enhancement in both electron-induced and x-ray–induced scintillation. Our framework should enable the development of a new class of brighter, faster, and higher-resolution scintillators with tailored and optimized performance.},
  author       = {Roques-Carmes, Charles and Rivera, Nicholas and Ghorashi, Ali and Kooi, Steven E. and Yang, Yi and Lin, Zin and Beroz, Justin and Massuda, Aviram and Sloan, Jamison and Romeo, Nicolas and Yu, Yang and Joannopoulos, John D. and Kaminer, Ido and Johnson, Steven G. and Soljačić, Marin},
  issn         = {1095-9203},
  journal      = {Science},
  number       = {6583},
  publisher    = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
  title        = {{A framework for scintillation in nanophotonics}},
  doi          = {10.1126/science.abm9293},
  volume       = {375},
  year         = {2022},
}