Influence of the Uniaxial Hot-Pressing Sintering Condition on Bi₄Ge₃O₁₂ Ceramic Scintillators

Table 1

Relative densities and RL efficiency for BGO I and II samples.

	Relative density		RL efficiency
	BGO I	BGO II	BGO I	BGO II
0 MPa	95.28 ± 0.5	95.28 ± 0.5	—	—
0.10 MPa	94.87% ± 0.01	95% ± 2	+7.2%	+0.13%
0.14 MPa	94.07% ± 0.01	94.2% ± 0.4	+7.1%	+0.79%
0.18 MPa	94.67% ± 0.01	95% ± 2	+8.3%	−3.70%