Results for aliovalent doping of CeBr3 with Ca2+

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Guss, Paul ^a   Foster, Michael E ^b   Wong, Bryan M ^b   Patrick Doty, F ^b   Shah, Kanai ^c   Squillante, Michael R ^c   Shirwadkar, Urmila ^c   Hawrami, Rastgo ^c   Tower, Joshua ^c   Yuan, Ding ^d  

^a Remote Sensing Laboratory Nellis   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; METAL CASTINGS; MOLECULES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCINTILLATION;

ALIOVALENT DOPING; COMMERCIAL AVAILABILITY; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; FRAGILE MATERIALS; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; SCINTILLATION MEASUREMENTS; SCINTILLATION PERFORMANCE;

CERIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84893262872     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4861647     Document Type: Article

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