Air atmosphere annealing effects on LSO:Ce crystal

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1272-1277

  Ding, Dongzhou ^a   Feng, He ^a   Ren, Guohao ^a   Nikl, Martin ^b   Qin, Laishun ^c   Pan, Shangke ^a   Yang, Fan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF CERAMICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Annealing; Cerium; Lso; Luminescence

Indexed keywords

AIR ATMOSPHERE; AIR-ANNEALING; ANNEALING EFFECTS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CERIUM IONS; CHARGE STATE; CZOCHRALSKI; DECAY TIME; DEEP TRAPS; ENERGY SOURCE; FIGURE OF MERIT; LSO; LUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; NON-RADIATIVE; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; TRAP CENTER; VALENCE STATE; X-RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; IONS; LUMINESCENCE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN VACANCIES; RADIATION EFFECTS; SCINTILLATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ANNEALING;

EID: 77953940058     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2036351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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