Chemical polishing of LSO crystals to increase light output

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 3, 2000, Pages 1018-1023

  Slates, Randal ^a   Chatziioannou, Arion ^a   Fehlberg, Brianna ^a   Lee, Taekyeung ^a   Cherry, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; MECHANICALLY POLISHED CRYSTAL;

CHEMICAL POLISHING; CRYSTALS; LIGHT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0034204882     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.856541     Document Type: Article

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