Picosecond studies of transient absorption induced by bandgap excitation of CsI and CsI:Tl at room temperature

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1187-1192

  Williams, Richard T ^a   Ucer, Kamil B ^a   Grim, Joel Quedar ^a   Lipke, Kyle C ^a   Trefilova, Larysa M ^b   Moses, William W ^c  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SCINTILLATION MATERIALS   (Ukraine)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CsI; Scintillators; Self trapped exciton; Transient absorption

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION BAND; BAND-GAP EXCITATION; BOUND ELECTRONS; INDUCED ABSORPTION; INFRARED BANDS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION; PICO-SECOND PULSE; PICOSECOND TIME; PICOSECONDS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCINTILLATION PULSE; SELF-TRAPPED EXCITON; SELF-TRAPPED HOLES; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; TRANSIENT SPECTRA; TWO PHOTON; VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY GAP; EXCITONS; INFRARED ABSORPTION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IONIZATION; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; THALLIUM;

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 77953925051     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2033184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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