Crystal growth and scintillation properties of Tm, Nd codoped LaF 3 single crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 3 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1278-1281

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

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokuyama Comanpy   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Codoping; Fluoride; Scintillator; Vacuum ultraviolet (VUV)

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION TRANSITIONS; CO-DOPANTS; CO-DOPED; CO-DOPING; EMISSION TRANSITION; MICRO-PULLING DOWN; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; PULSE HEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; SCINTILLATION MATERIALS; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; VACUUM ULTRAVIOLETS; VUV EMISSION;

ENERGY TRANSFER; GAMMA RAYS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIGHT EMISSION; NEODYMIUM; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; VACUUM;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77953955917     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2036915     Document Type: Conference Paper

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