Improving light extraction from heavy inorganic scintillators by photonic crystals

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3914-3919

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

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION PROPERTIES; INORGANIC SCINTILLATOR; LIGHT COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT EXTRACTION; SCATTERING MATRICES; TOTAL REFLECTION;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; IONIZATION; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 67649223479     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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