1. Introduction to scintillators / Martin Nikl and Valentin V. Laguta -- 2. Nanocomposite scintillators / Markus P. Hehlen, Nickolaus A. Smith, Michael W. Blair, Andy Li, Sy Stange, Robert D. Gilbertson, Edward A. McKigney, and Ross E. Muenchausen -- 3. Glass-ceramic scintillator / Jacqueline A. Johnson, Russell L. Leonard, Carlos Alvarez, Brooke Barta, and Stefan Schweizer -- 4. Transparent high-density oxide ceramics prepared by spark plasma sintering / Takashi Goto, Akihiko Ito, Akira Yoshikawa, Shunsuke Kurosawa, and Jan Pejchal -- 5. LPE-grown thin-film scintillators -- 6. Luminescence of Pb- and Bi-related centers in aluminum garnet, perovskite, and orthosilicate single-crystalline films / Svetlana Zazubovich, Aleksei Krasnikov, Yuriy Zorenko, Vitali Gorbenko, Vladimir Babin, Eva Mihokova, and Martin Nikl -- 7. ZnO-based phosphors and scintillators : preparation, characterization, and performance / Daniel Nizansky, Jakub Ru?icka, Alena Beitlerova, Jind?ich Hou?vicka, Petr Horodysky, Vaclav Tyrpekl, Ivo Jakubec, Akira Yoshikawa, and Martin Nikl.