Crystal growth and scintillation properties of Ce doped Gd 3(Ga,Al) 5O 12 single crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2112-2115

  Kamada, Kei ^a   Yanagida, Takayuki ^b   Pejchal, Jan ^c   Nikl, Martin ^c   Endo, Takanori ^a   Tsutsumi, Kousuke ^a   Fujimoto, Yutaka ^b   Fukabori, Akihiro ^b   Yoshikawa, Akira ^b  

^a FURUKAWA CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Crystals; luminescence; solid scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

CE CONCENTRATION; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; GROWTH DIRECTIONS; LIGHT YIELD; SCINTILLATION DECAY; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; SOLIDIFICATION FRACTION;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALS; GADOLINIUM; GALLIUM; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; SCINTILLATION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 84867576047     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2012.2197024     Document Type: Article

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