Single crystal growth and luminescence properties of CeF 3-CaF2 solid solution grown by the micro-pulling-down method

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1484-1487

  Yoshikawa, Akira ^a   Kim, Kyoung Jin ^a   Aoki, Kenji ^b   Kamada, Kei ^a   Saito, Fumio ^a   Pejchal, Jan ^c   Solovieva, Natalia ^c   Nikl, Martin ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Stella Chemifa Corporation   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ce perturbed center; Crystals; Fluoride; Scintillator

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LUMINESCENCE; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; SINGLE CRYSTAL GROWTHS;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 45849129488     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.924091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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