Thallium bromide nuclear radiation detector development

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1875-1881

  Churilov, Alexei V ^a   Ciampi, Guido ^a   Kim, Hadong ^a   Cirignano, Leonard J ^a   Higgins, William M ^a   Olschner, Fred ^b   Shah, Kanai S ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b Cremat Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma ray spectrometer; Semiconductor radiation detector; Thallium bromide; TlBr; Zone refining

Indexed keywords

GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETER; SEMICONDUCTOR RADIATION DETECTOR; THALLIUM BROMIDE; TLBR; ZONE REFINING;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEAR RADIATION SPECTROSCOPY; RADIATION DAMAGE; REFINING; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; THALLIUM; ZONE MELTING;

DETECTORS;

EID: 69549135998     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2021424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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