Design and Synthesis of Tb3+-doped KGW Crystal for the Exploration of Scintillation Performance with X-ray Imaging
- Corresponding author: Shuai-Hua WANG, shwang@fjirsm.ac.cn
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Hui XU, Wei-Wei XU, Liu-Wei XU, Zhi-Lin WANG, Shuai-Hua WANG, Qing SU, Bi-Sheng ZHANG, Qing-You ZENG, Shao-Fan WU. Design and Synthesis of Tb3+-doped KGW Crystal for the Exploration of Scintillation Performance with X-ray Imaging[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry,
;2021, 40(8): 1023-1030.
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