New rare-earth-activated phosphate glass scintillators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6706, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Neal, John S ^a   Boatner, Lynn A ^a   Wisniewski, Dariusz ^a,b   Ramey, Joanne O ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gamma ray detectors; Glass scintillators; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; GLASS; MELTING; PHOSPHORS;

GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS; GLASS SCINTILLATORS; X-RAY DETECTORS;

PHOSPHATES;

EID: 42149098681     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734561     Document Type: Conference Paper

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