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Two Examples of Recent Crystal Development

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Two examples of recent scintillator development are given in this chapter. They have been chosen in two different areas of applications to illustrate the common strategies, but also the differences in the approach. Lead tungstate illustrates particularly well how large and very challenging fundamental research projects are instrumental in pushing the limits of detector performances to meet an ambitious scientific goal. On the other hand, Lutetium perovskite crystals, although developed up to mass scale production by an acamedic consortium (the Crystal Clear Collaboration), is a crystal to be used mainly in commercial systems like medical imaging devices. It is therefore constrained not only by technical considerations but also by a severe competition environment, as any new commercial product.

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(2006). Two Examples of Recent Crystal Development. In: Inorganic Scintillators for Detector Systems. Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27768-4_6

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