Positron annihilation spectroscopy of defects in nuclear and irradiated materials-a review

FA Selim - Materials Characterization, 2021 - Elsevier
Positron is the only probe that can detect individual atomic vacancies and small and large
vacancy clusters induced by irradiation with remarkable sensitivity, providing information …

Complex oxide scintillators: Material defects and scintillation performance

M Nikl, VV Laguta, A Vedda - Physica status solidi (b), 2008 - Wiley Online Library
An overview of recognized structural defects, impurities and related trapping levels and their
role in the scintillation mechanism is provided and discussed in single crystal materials …

Investigation of positron annihilation lifetime and magnetic properties of Co1− xCuxFe2O4 nanoparticles

SM Asgarian, S Pourmasoud, Z Kargar… - Materials Research …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Copper substituted cobalt ferrite nanoparticles, Co 1− x Cu x Fe 2 O 4 (x= 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75,
1.0) were effectively synthesized by employing co-precipitation procedure. The structural …

Trends and patterns of scintillator nonproportionality

IV Khodyuk, P Dorenbos - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data on the photon nonproportional response of 33 inorganic scintillation materials are
systemized and analyzed. The main trends of nonproportionality for different groups of …

Aluminum and gallium substitution in yttrium and lutetium aluminum–gallium garnets: investigation by single-crystal NMR and TSL methods

V Laguta, Y Zorenko, V Gorbenko… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The work reports the results on 71Ga and 27Al NMR investigation of the gallium and
aluminum ions distribution over tetrahedral and octahedral positions in the Y3Al5–x Ga x …

The effect of silica doping on neodymium diffusion in yttrium aluminum garnet ceramics: implications for sintering mechanisms

R Boulesteix, A Maitre, JF Baumard… - Journal of the European …, 2009 - Elsevier
The Nd3+ cation diffusion into transparent polycrystalline YAG (Y3Al5O12) was investigated
as a function of temperature and silica content. Thin neodymium oxide layers were …

Rationalizing the structural changes and spectra of manganese and their temperature dependence in a series of garnets with first-principles calculations

Q Chen, L Shang, H Xu, C Ma, PA Tanner, CK Duan - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Detailed first-principles calculations have been carried out to study the stabilization,
excitation and luminescence mechanisms of the ion Mn 3+ in a series of A 3 B 2 B 3′ O 12 …

Direct investigation of the atomic structure and decreased magnetism of antiphase boundaries in garnet

K Xu, T Lin, Y Rao, Z Wang, Q Yang, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The ferrimagnetic insulator iron garnets, tailored artificially with specific compositions, have
been widely utilized in magneto-optical (MO) devices. The adjustment on synthesis always …

Temperature-dependent nonradiative energy transfer from Gd3+ to Ce3+ ions in co-doped LuAG: Ce, Gd garnet scintillators

Z Onderisinova, M Kucera, M Hanus, M Nikl - Journal of Luminescence, 2015 - Elsevier
Energy transfer from donor Gd 3+ to acceptor Ce 3+ ions was studied in low doped lutetium
aluminum garnet, LuAG: Ce, Gd. High purity single crystalline films were prepared by liquid …

Antisite defects in Ce-doped YAG (Y 3 Al 5 O 12): first-principles study on structures and 4f–5d transitions

AB Muñoz-García, Z Barandiarán… - Journal of Materials …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The interactions between Ce3+ and antisite defects (AD) in YAG (Y3Al5O12) are studied by
means of first-principles calculations: periodic-boundary-conditions density-functional-theory …