Effects of photonic crystals on the light output of heavy inorganic scintillators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2322-2329

  Knapitsch, Arno ^a   Auffray, Etiennette ^b   Fabjan, Christian W ^a   Leclercq, Jean Louis ^c   Letartre, Xavier ^c   Mazurczyk, Radoslaw ^c   Lecoq, Paul ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Light diffraction; light extraction; Monte Carlo; nano lithography; photonic crystals; scintillators

Indexed keywords

LIGHT DIFFRACTION; LIGHT EXTRACTION; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; MONTE CARLO; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOSPHORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EID: 84879285403     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2013.2262574     Document Type: Article

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