Lanthanum halide nanoparticle scintillators for nuclear radiation detection

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Guss, Paul ^a   Guise, Ronald ^a   Yuan, Ding ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Sanjoy ^c   O'Brien, Robert ^d   Lowe, Daniel ^d   Kang, Zhitao ^e   Menkara, Hisham ^e   Nagarkar, Vivek V ^f  

^a Remote Sensing Laboratory   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES LLC   (United States)

^c Building 1783 ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCIDENT RADIATION; INTRINSIC RESPONSE; LANTHANUM HALIDES; NANO-STRUCTURED; NUCLEAR RADIATIONS;

NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

IONIZATION;

EID: 84874303311     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4790867     Document Type: Article

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