Progress on photonic crystals

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1970-1975

  Lecoq, P ^a   Auffray, E ^a   Gundacker, S ^a   Hillemanns, H ^a   Jarron, P ^a   Knapitsch, A ^a   Leclercq, J L ^b   Letartre, X ^b   Meyer, T ^a   Pauwels, K ^a   Powolny, F ^a   Seassal, C ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIN FACTORS; HIGH INDEX; LIGHT EXTRACTION; LIGHT LOSS; LIGHT OUTPUT; LIGHT-EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PERIODIC MODULATION; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; SAMPLE PREPARATION PROCEDURE; SCINTILLATING CRYSTALS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES; WAVELENGTH SCALE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRACTION; GAMMA RAYS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 79960315684     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5874119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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