Evidences of rare-earth nanophases embedded in silica using vibrational spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1361-1369

  Vedda, Anna ^a   Chiodini, Norberto ^a   Fasoli, Mauro ^a   Lauria, Alessandro ^a   Moretti, Federico ^a   Di Martino, Daniela ^a   Baraldi, Andrea ^b   Buffagni, Elisa ^b   Capelletti, Rosanna ^b   Mazzera, Margherita ^b   Bohacek, Pavel ^c   Mihokova, Eva ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Nano phases; Rare earths; Scintillators; Vibra tional properties

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE FORMATION; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; HIGH TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; MEAN DIAMETER; NANOPHASES; OH CONTENTS; RADIO-LUMINESCENCE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICA GLASS; SILICA MATRIX; SOL-GEL METHODS;

AGGREGATES; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; COPOLYMERIZATION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GADOLINIUM; GELS; GLASS; IONIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; YTTERBIUM;

SILICA;

EID: 77953954504     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2044420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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