Bridgman growth and site occupation in LuAG:Ce scintillator crystals

Journal of Crystal Growth

Volumn 312, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 3136-3142

  Petrosyan, A G ^a   Ovanesyan, K L ^a   Sargsyan, R V ^a   Shirinyan, G O ^a   Abler, D ^b   Auffray, E ^b   Lecoq, P ^b   Dujardin, C ^c   Pedrini, C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL RESEARCH   (Armenia)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

A1. Defects; A2. Bridgman technique; B1. Rare earth compounds; B2. Scintillator materials

Indexed keywords

A1. DEFECTS; ACTIVATOR CONCENTRATION; BRIDGMAN GROWTH; BRIDGMAN TECHNIQUES; CE CONCENTRATION; DOPING LEVELS; LIGHT YIELD; MACROSCOPIC DEFECTS; OCTAHEDRAL LATTICE; SCINTILLATION MEASUREMENTS; SCINTILLATOR CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATOR MATERIALS; SITE OCCUPATION; VERTICAL BRIDGMAN TECHNIQUE;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; SCINTILLATION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 77956885924     PISSN: 00220248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2010.07.042     Document Type: Article

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