Single crystal growth, optical properties and neutron response of Ce 3+ doped LiCaAlFg

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3796-3799

  Yoshikawa, Akira ^a   Yanagida, Takayuki ^a   Yokota, Yuui ^a,b   Kawaguchi, Noriaki ^b   Ishizu, Sumito ^b   Fukuda, Kentaro ^a   Suyama, Toshihisa ^b   Kim, Kyoung Jin ^a   Pejchal, Jan ^a,c   Nikl, Martin ^c   Watanabe, Kenichi ^d   Miyake, Masayasu ^a   Baba, Mamoru ^a   Kamada, Kei ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKUYAMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crystal growth; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

EMISSION PEAKS; LI-GLASS; LIGHT YIELD; MICRO-PULLING-DOWN METHOD; NEUTRON RESPONSE; NOMINAL COMPOSITION; PHOTOELECTRON YIELD; RADIO-LUMINESCENCE; SAINT-GOBAIN; SCINTILLATION DECAY TIME; SPECTRAL CORRECTION;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IONIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 72349091831     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2033115     Document Type: Conference Paper

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