Recent applications of nuclear tracks in solids

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 43, Issue SUPPL.1, 2008, Pages

  Price, P Buford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barium phosphate glass detectors; Cluster radioactivities; Fission track dating; Fractional charge states; Gene sequencing; High energy fragmentation reactions; Imaging soft X ray astronomy; Magnetic monopoles; Nanowires; Polymeric nanowires; Radon dosimetry; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC WIRE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; RADON; WAVE FILTERS;

ION TRACKS; MAGNETIC STUDIES; MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NUCLEAR FUSION; NUCLEAR TRACKS; NUCLEPORE; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 48549091865     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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