Photonic crystals: A novel approach to enhance the light output of scintillation based detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 628, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 385-388

  Knapitsch, Arno ^a,c   Auffray, Etiennette ^a   Fabjan, C W ^b,c   Leclercq, Jean Louis ^d   Lecoq, Paul ^a   Letartre, Xavier ^d   Seassal, Christian ^d  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Light extraction; Nanolithography; Photonic crystals; Scintillating crystals

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NANOLITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICON NITRIDE; TIN OXIDES;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS (HEP); LIGHT EMITTING DIODE (LEDS); LIGHT EXTRACTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PHCS); SCINTILLATING CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATION CHARACTERISTICS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 79251598688     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2010.07.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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