Potentiality of ceramic scintillators: General considerations and yag-yb optical ceramics performance

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1211-1217

  Kamenskikh, I ^a   Chugunova, M ^a   Fredrich Thornton, S T ^b   Pedrini, C ^c   Petermann, K ^b   Vasil'ev, A ^a   Wolters, U ^b   Yagi, H ^d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d KONOSHIMA CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge transfer luminescence; Optical ceramics; Scattering

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC SCINTILLATOR; CHARGE-TRANSFER; CHARGE-TRANSFER LUMINESCENCE; LASER MATERIALS; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; NANOCRYSTAL-LINE TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL CERAMICS; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; UV- AND; VACUUM SINTERING; YAG;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; LUMINESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE OF INORGANIC SOLIDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SINTERING; YTTERBIUM;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953940059     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2047654     Document Type: Conference Paper

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