Scintillating and Semiconducting High Density Glasses for X-ray Detectors*

High-density glasses are good candidates for detectors used for medical applications such as x-ray imaging. Glass is easy to make and affordable compared to high density crystals. At Coe College glass laboratories we manufactured high density scintillating and high density semiconducting glasses that can be used in X-ray detectors. The scintillating glasses are Tungsten and Gadolinium based and doped with Eu/Tb. The semiconducting glasses are Vanadium and Tellurium based. Here, we report the glass making conditions, along with physical and optical measurements, as well as x-ray detection tests, for these high-density scintillating and semiconducting glasses.