Evaluation of melt-grown, ZnO single crystals for use as alpha-particle detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1397-1403

  Neal, John S ^a,b,c   Giles, Nancy C ^d   Yang, Xiaocheng ^d   Wall, R Andrew ^e   Ucer, K Burak ^e   Williams, Richard T ^e   Wisniewski, Dariusz J ^b,c   Boatner, Lynn A ^b   Rengarajan, Varathajan ^f   Nause, Jeff ^f   Nemeth, Bill ^f  

^a IEEE

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Cermet Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Associated particle technique; Fast scintillators; Semiconductor scintillators; Zinc oxide (ZnO)

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; DECAY (ORGANIC); DETECTORS; DEUTERIUM; ERBIUM; FOOD PROCESSING; GALLIUM; HEALTH; IONIZATION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LITHIUM; LUMINESCENCE; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; NEUTRON BEAMS; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; OXYGEN; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOSPHORS; POWDERS; RADIATION; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SOLIDS; TRITIUM; ZINC; ZINC ALLOYS; ZINC OXIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

ALPHA PARTICLE DETECTORS; APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; D-T NEUTRON GENERATOR; DECAY COMPONENTS; DECAY TIMES; DEUTERIUM-TRITIUM (D-T); GROWTH PROCESSES; HIGH RADIATION RESISTANCE; INFRARED (IR) REFLECTANCE; LANTHANIDES; LIGHT YIELD (LY); MELT-GROWN; NEUTRON GENERATORS; ORGANIC MATERIALS (OM); PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS; RADIATION DETECTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE (RT-PL); SCINTILLATION MECHANISMS; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; SUBNANOSECOND; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; ZNO SINGLE CRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ALPHA RAYS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DECAY; DETECTORS; DEUTERIUM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 45849097279     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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