Scintillation properties of 2-inch-diameter Pr: Lu3Al 5o12(LuaG) single crystal

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 570-573

  Kamada, Kei ^a   Yanagida, Takayuki ^b   Tsutsumi, Kousuke ^b   Usuki, Yoshiyuki ^b   Sato, Mitsuhiro ^b   Ogino, Hiraku ^c   Novoselov, Andrey ^a   Yoshikawa, Akira ^a   Kobayashi, Masaaki ^d   Sugimoto, Shojiro ^d   Saito, Fumio ^a  

^a FURUKAWA CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

5d 4f luminescence; Crystal growth; Gamma ray detectors; Garnets; Pr3+

Indexed keywords

5D-4F LUMINESCENCE; CZOCHRALSKI METHODS; DECAY COMPONENTS; DECAY TIME; EMISSION DECAYS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FAST RISE TIME; GAMMA-RAY DETECTORS; HIGH DENSITY; LIGHT YIELD; LSO CRYSTALS; PR3+; PULSE HEIGHT; PULSED X-RAYS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ALUMINUM; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; EUROPIUM; GAMMA RAYS; GARNETS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM; MEDICAL IMAGING; SCINTILLATION; SILICATE MINERALS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 67649205387     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2019751     Document Type: Article

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