Wide band gap scintillation materials: progress in the technology and material understanding

M Nikl - physica status solidi (a), 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence and scintillation characteristics of four selected material systems, namely CsI:
Tl (Na), CeF3, PbWO4 and Ce‐doped aluminium perovskites XAlO3: Ce (X= Y, Lu, Y–Lu) …

Microscopic insight into properties and electronic instabilities of impurities in cubic and lower symmetry insulators: the influence of pressure

M Moreno, MT Barriuso, JA Aramburu… - Journal of Physics …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews the microscopic origin of properties due to transition-metal (TM)
impurities, M, in insulator materials. Particular attention is paid to the influence of pressure …

Lead tungstate scintillation material

AA Annenkov, MV Korzhik, P Lecoq - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in …, 2002 - Elsevier
In this paper we summarize the results of a research programme on lead-tungstate (PWO)
crystals performed by the CMS Collaboration at CERN, as well as by other groups who …

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 …

Hierarchical Assembly of CaMoO4 Nano-Octahedrons and Their Photoluminescence Properties

VM Longo, LS Cavalcante, EC Paris… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Hierarchical assemblies of CaMoO4 (CM) nano-octahedrons were obtained by microwave-
assisted hydrothermal synthesis at 120° C for different times. These structures were …

Different origins of green-light photoluminescence emission in structurally ordered and disordered powders of calcium molybdate

VM Longo, AT Figueiredo, AB Campos… - The Journal of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A strong greenish-light photoluminescence (PL) emission was measured at room
temperature for disordered and ordered powders of CaMoO4 prepared by the polymeric …

Mechanisms behind blue, green, and red photoluminescence emissions in CaWO4 and CaMoO4 powders

AB Campos, AZ Simões, E Longo, JA Varela… - Applied physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
A combined experimental and theoretical study was conducted to analyze the
photoluminescence (PL) properties of ordered and disordered Ca WO 4 (CW) and Ca Mo O …

Feasibility study of PbWO4 and PbMoO4 crystal scintillators for cryogenic rare events experiments

FA Danevich, BV Grinyov, S Henry… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Scintillation properties of PbWO4 and PbMoO4 have been studied as potential cryogenic
scintillators for rare event searches. The light output and decay kinetics of PbWO4 and …

Significant improvement of PbWO4 scintillating crystals by doping with trivalent ions

M Kobayashi, Y Usuki, M Ishii, N Senguttuvan… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 1999 - Elsevier
Doping by different trivalent ions (La3+, Lu3+, Gd3+, Y3+, Sc3+) was systematically studied
in PbWO4 crystals in the same way, using raw material from the same source. The result …

Electronic structure of oxygen-related defects in and crystals

YB Abraham, NAW Holzwarth, RT Williams… - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
Several types of defect structures in PbWO 4 and CaMoO 4 are studied within the framework
of density functional theory. While PbWO 4 is currently of greater technological interest, we …