Basic properties of ceramic Pr:LuAG scintillators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2955-2959

  Yanagida, Takayuki ^a   Yoshikawa, Akira ^a   Ikesue, Akio ^b   Kamada, Kei ^c   Yokota, Yuui ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b World Lab Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c FURUKAWA CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystals; Nuclear power instrumentation; Optical materials; Scintillation detectors; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

AT-WAVELENGTH; BASIC PROPERTIES; DECAY TIME; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; LIGHT YIELD; NUCLEAR POWER INSTRUMENTATION; SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATORS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; TRANSPARENT CERAMIC;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; CESIUM; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALS; INSTRUMENTS; IONIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SINTERING;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 70350180239     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2026475     Document Type: Article

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