“…Furthermore, CdWO 4 is a non-hydroscopic, radiation hard, cheap material, with short values of afterglow (0.05% after three milliseconds of exposure), a high effective atomic number (Zeff values ranging from 61 to 66 were reported in the literature), and a gamma ray detection efficiency (ρZ 4 e f f ) equal to 134 × 10 6 [1,3,4,7,8,13,14,18,[23][24][25][26]. However, there are certain drawbacks such as the fact that it is difficult to produce in large dimensions and it is toxic due to cadmium [16,[25][26][27][28][29][30]. These properties make CdWO 4 suitable for various applications, such as high-energy physics, spectroscopy, gamma-ray detectors, as well as in the search for dark matter in the universe, neutrinoless 2β decay detection, and α decay of 180 W experiments [8,31].…”