Influence of crystalline surface quality on TlBr radiation detector performance

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 III, 2005, Pages 2058-2062

  Oliveira, Icimone B ^a   Costa, Fabio E ^a   Kiyohara, Pedro K ^b   Hamada, Margarida M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Optical microscopy; Radiation detector; Scanning electron microscopy; Surface quality; Thallium bromide

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ENERGY RESOLUTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE QUALITY; THALLIUM BROMIDE;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 29144437806     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.856788     Document Type: Article

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