Floating zone growth and scintillation characteristics of cerium-doped gadolinium pyrosilicate single crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1383-1386

  Kawamura, S ^a   Kaneko, J H ^a   Higuchi, M ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^a   Haruna, J ^a   Yagi, Y ^b   Susa, K ^b   Fujita, F ^a   Homma, A ^a   Nishiyama, S ^a   Kurashige, K ^b   Ishibashi, H ^b   Furusaka, M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b High Performance Materials Department   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystal growth; Gadolinium compounds; Gd2Si2O 7; Neutron detectors; Radiation detectors; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION;

FLOATING ZONE GROWTH; SPACE GROUP;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 34548099975     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.902372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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