Neural network inverse design of nanophotonic scintillators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16309v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:15:22 GMT
• Title: Neural network inverse design of nanophotonic scintillators
• Abstract summary: We present a physics-informed neural network that learns the scintillation cascade process from the incident high-energy particle to photon emission.<n>This allows us to optimize for arbitrary figures of merit, such as specific target emission patterns.
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• Abstract: Scintillators are materials converting high-energy radiation into optical light, essential in a range of technologies such as medical imaging systems and security scanners. Scintillator development and optimization have remained limited by the complexity of their underlying physics, involving stochastic cascades of electron-electron, electron-phonon, and electron-photon interactions. Such processes are typically modeled by non-differentiable Monte Carlo simulations, limiting the applicability of machine learning for scintillator development. Here we present a physics-informed neural network that learns the scintillation cascade process from the incident high-energy particle to photon emission, substantially accelerating scintillator design and optimization. Combining this neural network with photonic simulations enables end-to-end differentiable optimization of the scintillator geometry. This allows us to optimize for arbitrary figures of merit, such as specific target emission patterns.. We demonstrate the concept and characterize it relative to previous approaches by inverse design of nanophotonic scintillators for X-ray imaging.

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