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State of the Art of Scintillation Crystal Growth Methods

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This paper presents the overview of modern technical and technological solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency of scintillation crystal growth methods, as one of the main component influenced on the cost of scintillator. On the examples of obtaining classic and new scintillators, the current trends in the development of classical and new technologies, allowing to grow both large and small crystals, are considered.

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Taranyuk, V. (2019). State of the Art of Scintillation Crystal Growth Methods. In: Korzhik, M., Gektin, A. (eds) Engineering of Scintillation Materials and Radiation Technologies. ISMART 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21970-3_11

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