Fabrication of finely pitched lyso arrays using subsurface laser engraving technique with picosecond and nanosecond pulse lasers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1032-1038

  Moriya, Takahiro ^a   Fukumitsu, Kenshi ^a   Yamashita, Takaji ^a   Watanabe, Mitsuo ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laser materials processing applications; Nuclear imaging; Positron emission tomography; Scintillation detectors

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; FABRICATION; MICROCRACKS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

ITS APPLICATIONS; LASER ENERGIES; LASER ENGRAVING; LASER MATERIALS-PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR IMAGING; PICOSECOND AND NANOSECOND PULSE; PRECISE FABRICATIONS; SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS;

LASER MATERIALS PROCESSING;

EID: 84899080966     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2014.2309347     Document Type: Article

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