Probing the concepts of photonic crystals on scintillating materials

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1102-1106

  Kronberger, Matthias ^b   Auffray, Etiennette ^a,b   Lecoq, Paul ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Light extraction; Photonic crystals; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONICS; POWDERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; DIFFERENT TYPES; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LIGHT YIELD (LY); PHOTONIC; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION (TIR);

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 45849138583     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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