Synthesis and consolidation of boron carbide: a review

AK Suri, C Subramanian, JK Sonber… - International …, 2010‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Boron carbide is a strategic material, finding applications in nuclear industry, armour for
personnel and vehicle safety, rocket propellant, etc. Its high hardness makes it suitable for …

The physics of solid-state neutron detector materials and geometries

AN Caruso - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2010‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Detection of neutrons, at high total efficiency, with greater resolution in kinetic energy, time
and/or real-space position, is fundamental to the advance of subfields within nuclear …

Compound semiconductor radiation detectors

A Owens, A Peacock - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 2004‏ - Elsevier
We discuss the potential benefits of using compound semiconductors for the detection of X-
and γ-ray radiation. While Si and Ge have become detection standards for energy dispersive …

[كتاب][B] Compound semiconductor radiation detectors

A Owens - 2016‏ - books.google.com
For many applications, compound semiconductors are now viable competitors to elemental
semiconductors because of their wide range of physical properties. This book describes all …

Boron clusters come of age

RN Grimes - Journal of chemical education, 2004‏ - ACS Publications
Polyhedral clusters containing boron, alone or in combination with other elements, have
been known for nearly a century, and intensive studies of their structures, bonding, and …

The all boron carbide diode neutron detector: Comparison with theory

AN Caruso, PA Dowben, S Balkir, N Schemm… - Materials Science and …, 2006‏ - Elsevier
A boron carbide diode detector, fabricated from two different polytypes of semiconducting
boron carbide, will detect neutrons in reasonable agreement with theory. Small deviations …

Latest developments in room-temperature semiconductor neutron detectors: Prospects and challenges

L Liu, X Ouyang, R Gao, P Wan, X Ouyang - Science China Physics …, 2023‏ - Springer
Semiconductor-based neutron-detectors are characterized by small size, high energy-
resolution, good spatial resolution, and stable response (at the depletion voltage) …

Composites and materials prepared from boron cluster anions and carboranes

VV Avdeeva, SE Nikiforova, EA Malinina, IB Sivaev… - Materials, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Here, we present composites and materials that can be prepared starting with boron hydride
cluster compounds (decaborane, decahydro-closo-decaborate and dodecahydro-closo …

Laser ablation molecular isotopic spectrometry: parameter influence on boron isotope measurements

X Mao, AA Bol'shakov, DL Perry, O Sorkhabi… - … Acta Part B: Atomic …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry (LAMIS) was recently reported for optical
isotopic analysis of condensed samples in ambient air and at ambient pressure. LAMIS …

Oxidation kinetics and thermophysical properties of gamma irradiated silicon hexaboride

MN Mirzayev, KF Mammadov, VA Skuratov… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Silicide hexaboride (SiB 6) compound with a purity of 99.5% was irradiated using 60 Co
gamma radioisotope under the atmospheric pressure with a dose rate (D) of 0.27 Gy/s at the …