In this work, we report the crystal growth of KGd2Cl7:Ce via the vertical gradient freeze method. Various Ce concentrations from 0.5 to 10 at% have been tested to study the effect of dopant concentration on scintillation performance. The KGd2Cl7:Ce crystals have demonstrated good properties for gamma-ray and thermal neutron detection. Scintillation light yield of similar to 30,000 ph/MeV and principal scintillation decay of 50 ns were measured for KGd2Cl7:Ce 3%. The crystals exhibited layered structure with cleavage planes. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.