Host structure dependence of light yield and proportionality in scintillators in terms of hot and thermalized carrier transport

Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 346-348

  Li, Qi ^a   Grim, Joel Q ^a   Ucer, K B ^a   Burger, A ^b   Bizarri, G A ^c   Moses, W W ^c   Williams, R T ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier thermalization; Group velocity; Hot electrons; Nonproportionality; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

BAND EDGE; COMPLEX HALIDES; CURRENT MODELS; ELECTRON ENERGIES; GROUP VELOCITIES; HOST STRUCTURE; HOT-ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IONIZATION TRACK; KINETIC ORDER; LIGHT YIELD; MONOVALENT METALS; NONPROPORTIONALITY; OPTICAL PHONON FREQUENCIES; QUENCHING MODEL; SELF-TRAPPING; THERMALIZATION; THERMALIZED CARRIERS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HOT ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; LIGHT; METAL HALIDES; PHOSPHORS; QUENCHING; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 84865291760     PISSN: 18626254     EISSN: 18626270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201206258     Document Type: Article

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