Thallium bromide optical and radiation detectors for X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 II, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2526-2529

  Hitomi, Keitaro ^a   Matsumoto, Manabu ^a   Muroi, Osamu ^a   Shoji, Tadayoshi ^a   Hiratate, Yukio ^a  

^a TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical detector; Semiconductor detector; Thallium bromide (TIBr)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; GAMMA RAYS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THALLIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

GAMMA RAY SPECTROSCOPY; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; OPTICAL DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION SPECTROSCOPY; THALLIUM BROMIDE; TRAVELING MOLTEN ZONE METHOD;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0036816116     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.803851     Document Type: Article

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