Scintillation properties of praseodymium activated Lu3Al 5O12 single crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2420-2424

  Drozdowski, Winicjusz ^a,b   Dorenbos, Pieter ^a   De Haas, Johan T M ^a   Drozdowska, Renata ^a   Owens, Alan ^c   Kamada, Kei ^d   Tsutsumi, Kousuke ^d   Usuki, Yoshiyuki ^d   Yanagida, Takayuki ^e   Yoshikawa, Akira ^e  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d FURUKAWA CO LTD   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy resolution; LuAG; Praseodymium; Scintillation yield; Scintillator

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; LIGHT EMISSION; LUTETIUM; PRASEODYMIUM; SCINTILLATION;

ENERGY RESOLUTION; LUAG; SCINTILLATION YIELD; SCINTILLATOR;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 53349089712     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2000845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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