TY - GEN
T1 - Crystal growth and scintillation properties of NdF3 single crystal
AU - Furuya, Yuki
AU - Tanaka, Hidehiko
AU - Kawaguchi, Noriaki
AU - Abe, Naoto
AU - Yokota, Yuui
AU - Yanagida, Takayuki
AU - Kamada, Kei
AU - Nikl, Martin
AU - Yoshikawa, Akira
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - NdF3 single crystal was efficiently grown from the melt by the micro-pulling-down (μ-PD) method. The grown crystal had a single phase confirmed by XRD. Then Optical properties and α-ray excited scintillation properties in Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) wavelength region were investigated. It showed 60-80 % transmittance down to 170 nm, and broad luminescence centered at 175 nm. The light yield and decay time of it were also evaluated under 5.5 MeV α-ray excitation (241Am). The light yield was evaluated to be 60 ± 6 [Ph / 5.5 MeV-α], and the decay time was also evaluated to be 6.9 ns under 5.5 MeV α-ray excitation.
AB - NdF3 single crystal was efficiently grown from the melt by the micro-pulling-down (μ-PD) method. The grown crystal had a single phase confirmed by XRD. Then Optical properties and α-ray excited scintillation properties in Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) wavelength region were investigated. It showed 60-80 % transmittance down to 170 nm, and broad luminescence centered at 175 nm. The light yield and decay time of it were also evaluated under 5.5 MeV α-ray excitation (241Am). The light yield was evaluated to be 60 ± 6 [Ph / 5.5 MeV-α], and the decay time was also evaluated to be 6.9 ns under 5.5 MeV α-ray excitation.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402301
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402301
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77951167796
SN - 9781424439621
T3 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
SP - 1501
EP - 1504
BT - 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2009
Y2 - 25 October 2009 through 31 October 2009
ER -