The roles of thermalized and hot carrier diffusion in determining light yield and proportionality of scintillators

Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Volumn 209, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2421-2426

  Grim, J Q ^a   Li, 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

hot electron; nonproportionality; scintillator; thermalized diffusion

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DIFFUSIONS; HEAVIER HALIDES; KINETIC ORDER; LIGHT YIELD; MATERIAL PARAMETER; NONPROPORTIONALITY; SELF-TRAPPING; THERMALIZED CARRIERS;

HOT ELECTRONS; IONIZATION; PHOSPHORS; RATE CONSTANTS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 84871212497     PISSN: 18626300     EISSN: 18626319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssa.201200436     Document Type: Article

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