Search Results - "MONTEREALI, R.M."

Solid state detectors based on point defects in lithium fluoride for advanced proton beam diagnostics by Piccinini, M., Ambrosini, F., Ampollini, A., Carpanese, M., Picardi, L., Ronsivalle, C., Bonfigli, F., Libera, S., Vincenti, M.A., Montereali, R.M.

“…Proton beams of 3 and 7MeV energies, produced by a linear accelerator, were used to irradiate lithium fluoride crystals and thermally evaporated LiF thin films…”
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Contact X‐ray microscopy of living cells by using LiF crystal as imaging detector by REALE, L., BONFIGLI, F., LAI, A., FLORA, F., ALBERTANO, P., DI GIORGIO, M. L., MEZI, L., MONTEREALI, R.M., FAENOV, A., PIKUZ, T., ALMAVIVA, S., FRANCUCCI, M., GAUDIO, P., MARTELLUCCI, S., RICHETTA, M., POMA, A.

“…Summary In this paper, the use of lithium fluoride (LiF) as imaging radiation detector to analyse living cells by single‐shot soft X‐ray contact microscopy is…”
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Color centers aggregation kinetics in lithium fluoride after gamma irradiation by Voitovich, А.P., Kalinov, V.S., Runets, L.P., Stupak, A.P., Martynovich, Е.F., Montereali, R.M., Baldacchini, G.

“…Lithium fluoride crystals are irradiated at various doses by gamma rays at 77K. The time evolution of photoluminescence signals from aggregated F2+, F2, F3+…”
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Lithium fluoride thin-film detectors for soft X-ray imaging at high spatial resolution by Montereali, R.M., Almaviva, S., Bonfigli, F., Cricenti, A., Faenov, A., Flora, F., Gaudio, P., Lai, A., Martellucci, S., Nichelatti, E., Pikuz, T., Reale, L., Richetta, M., Vincenti, M.A.

“…Among insulating materials containing point defects, lithium fluoride (LiF) is a radiation-sensitive alkali halide well known in dosimetry and as active medium…”
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Single crystal CVD diamonds as neutron detectors at JET by Lattanzi, D., Angelone, M., Pillon, M., Almaviva, S., Marinelli, M., Milani, E., Prestopino, G., Tucciarone, A., Verona, C., Verona-Rinati, G., Popovichev, S., Montereali, R.M., Vincenti, M.A., Murari, A.

“…This paper reports on the three new Single Crystal Diamond (SCD) detectors installed at JET for the 2008 Restart campaign. The yields of total neutrons…”
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Point defects in lithium fluoride by EUV and soft X-rays exposure for X-ray microscopy and optical applications by Baldacchini, G., Bollanti, S., Bonfigli, F., Di Lazzaro, P., Faenov, A.Ya, Flora, F., Marolo, T., Montereali, R.M., Murra, D., Nichelatti, E., Pikuz, T., Reale, A., Reale, L., Ritucci, A., Tomassetti, G.

“…The extreme ultraviolet radiation emitted by a laser-plasma source or by a capillary discharge laser is applied to the generation of luminescent patterns in…”
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SNOM images of X-ray radiographs at nano-scale stored in a thin layer of lithium fluoride by OLIVA, C, USTIONE, A, ALMAVIVA, S, BALDACCHINI, G, BONFIGLI, F, FLORA, F, LAI, A, MONTEREALI, R.M, FAENOV, A.YA, PIKUZ, T.A, FRANCUCCI, M, GAUDIO, P, MARTELLUCCI, S, RICHETTA, M, REALE, L, CRICENTI, A

“…In this work, we report a method to observe soft X-ray radiographs at nanoscale of various kind of samples, biological and metallic, stored in a thin layer of…”
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Confocal laser scanning microscopy of active color centers based strips induced on LiF by low energy electron beams by Almaviva, S., Baldacchini, G., Piccinini, M., Montereali, R.M.

“…A confocal laser scanning microscope has been used in a non-conventional approach to reconstruct the depth distribution of stable, optically active color…”
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Subwavelength-size local fluorescent sources based on color centers in LiF for scanning near-field optical microscopy by Sekatskii, S.K., Dietler, G., Bonfigli, F., Loreti, S., Marolo, T., Montereali, R.M.

“…Local fluorescent probes based on 50–100 nm thick layers of LiF:F 2 deposited onto the apex of apertured fiber probe of scanning near-field optical microscope…”
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Proton-beam energy diagnostics by color-center photoluminescence imaging in LiF crystals: Implementation of multiple Coulomb scattering into an analytical Bragg-curve model by Nichelatti, E., Piccinini, M., Nenzi, P., Picardi, L., Ronsivalle, C., Montereali, R.M.

“…Lithium fluoride crystals are used to assess proton-beam energy spectra. Proton irradiation induces laser-active color centers in the crystal, whose density…”
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Broad-band active channels induced by electron beam lithography in LiF films for waveguiding devices by Montereali, R.M., Bigotta, S., Piccinini, M., Giammatteo, M., Picozzi, P., Santucci, S.

“…For the first time, a confocal light scanning microscope (CLSM) in fluorescence mode was used to reconstruct the depth distribution of efficiently emitting…”
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Spectral analysis of visible photoluminescence from F2 and F3+ color centers in low-dose gamma-irradiated lithium fluoride crystals at increasing excitation power by Nichelatti, E., Piccinini, M., Pimpinella, M., De Coste, V., Montereali, R.M.

“…Lithium fluoride crystals were gamma irradiated at three different clinical doses (5, 10 and 20 Gy) with the 60Co reference beam of the Italian National…”
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Semianalytical tool for spread-out Bragg peak optimization in an active energy-modulation proton therapy linac by Ronsivalle, C., Nichelatti, E., Picardi, L., Montereali, R.M.

“…Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) can take great advantage of fast tools based on analytical or semianalytical approaches providing dose evaluation in…”
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An analytical approximation of proton Bragg curves in lithium fluoride for beam energy distribution analysis by Nichelatti, E., Ronsivalle, C., Piccinini, M., Picardi, L., Montereali, R.M.

“…•An analytical formula is obtained for proton Bragg curves in LiF.•Simulated proton LET curves in LiF are successfully analytically reproduced.•Proton-LiF…”
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Dose response of visible color center radiophotoluminescence in lithium fluoride crystals irradiated with a reference 60Co gamma beam in the 1–20 Gy dose range by Piccinini, M., Nichelatti, E., Pimpinella, M., De Coste, V., Montereali, R.M.

“…The visible radiophotoluminescence response of radiation-induced stable F2 and F3+ color centers in nominally pure lithium fluoride crystals, irradiated with a…”
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Engineering of optical active microcavities based on color centers in LiF by ion implantation by Saoudi, R., Belarouci, A., Moretti, P., Jacquier, B., Rigneault, H., Cathelinaud, M., Nichelatti, E., Montereali, R.M., Somma, F.

“…For the first time active planar optical microcavities with a thin colored lithium fluoride film as spacer have been fabricated by ion implantation…”
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Low-energy protons shallow spread-out Bragg peak imaging with a lithium fluoride crystal by Nichelatti, E., Piccinini, M., Ronsivalle, C., Ampollini, A., Picardi, L., Astorino, M.D., Nenzi, P., Montereali, R.M.

“…•Creation of color centers in a LiF crystal by proton irradiation with a SOBP setup.•First successful visualization of proton SOBP via luminescent color…”
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Algorithm for inversion of photoluminescent Bragg curves in lithium fluoride applied to the analysis of proton beam energy spectra by Nichelatti, E., Ronsivalle, C., Piccinini, M., Picardi, L., Montereali, R.M.

“…•Proton-LiF interaction creates color centers that photoluminesce in the visible.•LiF crystals are used as detectors for multienergetic proton…”
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Enhanced selective solar absorption of surface nanotextured semi-insulating 6H–SiC by Mastellone, M., Bellucci, A., Girolami, M., Montereali, R.M., Orlando, S., Polini, R., Serpente, V., Sani, E., Valentini, V., Vincenti, M.A., Trucchi, D.M.

“…Surface treatments were performed on single-crystal semi-insulating 6H–SiC by femtosecond pulsed laser irradiation, aimed at analyzing the effect of the…”
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Photoluminescence of colour centres in lithium fluoride thin films: From solid-state miniaturised light sources to novel radiation imaging detectors by Montereali, R.M., Bonfigli, F., Piccinini, M., Nichelatti, E., Vincenti, M.A.

“…Luminescence properties of point defects in insulating materials are successfully used for solid state light sources and radiation detectors. Among them,…”
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