Crystal growth and scintillation properties of strontium iodide scintillators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 869-872

  Van Loef, Edgar V ^a   Wilson, Cody M ^a   Cherepy, Nerine J ^b   Hull, Giulia ^b   Payne, Stephen A ^b   Choong, Woon Seng ^c   Moses, William W ^c   Shah, Kanai S ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaline earth halides; Crystal growth; Energy resolution; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE-EARTH HALIDES; BROAD BANDS; DEFECT-RELATED EMISSION; ENERGY RESOLUTION; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; LIGHT YIELD; LUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; RADIOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRA; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; STANDARD DEVIATION; VERTICAL BRIDGMAN TECHNIQUE;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EUROPIUM; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IONIZATION; LIGHT; NEUTRON DETECTORS; OPTICAL GLASS; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICA; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STRONTIUM;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 67649221358     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2013947     Document Type: Article

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