Bizarri, GregoryMazidi, Aimal2023-04-062023-04-062018-09https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19417Reaching social limits within health care, security and energy physics, a demand for development of current technologies in radiation detection is becoming more urgent. A proposition is to develop a multi-modality heterostructure radiation detectors with ability to bypass performance of the current technological limitations. With successful results in this multi-disciplinary research project involving, material processing, computer simulation and manufacturing we impact greatly the social challenges we are facing today such as need for better health care system, safer social security, cleaner and more efficient energy as well as enhancing modern physics. Global aim of the project is to demonstrate heterostructure radiation detector to have high performance, being ultra-fast, with high stopping power with comparison to the current time of flight positron emission tomography detectors. My part within the project is to improve light transport within the heterostructure by functionalisation all the heterostructure surfaces (Lu2SiO5/ZnO interfaces and outer surfaces).en© Cranfield University, 2015. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written permission of the copyright holder.Radiationdetectionmulti-modalityheterostructurematerial processingcomputer simulationmanufacturingThesis