Deposition of scintillating layers of bismuth germanate (bgo) films for x-ray detector applications

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 525-527

  Duan, M ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPOSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEPOSITION; LASER ABLATION; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCINTILLATION; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

BISMUTH GERMANATE FILMS; SCINTILLATING PROPERTIES; X RAY DETECTORS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0032099385     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.682441     Document Type: Article

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