Ce concentration dependence of optical and scintillation properties for Ce doped LiYF4 single crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1241-1244

  Yokota, Yuui ^a   Yanagida, Takayuki ^a   Abe, Naoto ^a   Kawaguchi, Noriaki ^b   Fukuda, Kentaro ^b   Nikl, Martin ^c   Yoshikawa, Akira ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKUYAMA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cerium; Crystal growth; Fluorine compounds; Neutron scintillator

Indexed keywords

CE CONCENTRATION; DECAY TIME; EMISSION PEAKS; ION SITES; LIGHT YIELD; MICRO-PULLING-DOWN METHOD; NEUTRON SCINTILLATOR; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; STARTING MATERIALS;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUORINE; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SCINTILLATION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953923048     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2040836     Document Type: Conference Paper

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