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. 2014 Oct 8;4:6549. doi: 10.1038/srep06549

Figure 3. Schematic representation of plastic scintillators, their scintillation and amplitude spectra.

Figure 3

(a), Standard plastic scintillator based on PS matrix with activator and spectral shifter luminophores. (b), Plastic scintillator with NOLs combining both activators and spectral shifter in one nanostructure. Energy transfer steps from the excited PS matrix to the activator and form the activator to the spectral shifters are shown with corresponding arrows. (c), Scintillation spectra of a few model PS scintillators (standard Sc0 and with NOL-X – NScX) having different wavelengths of the maximum, the values of which are indicated for each sample. (d), Amplitude spectra, obtained under irradiation of the samples of PS scintillators NScX, containing each 0.01–0.015 M of NOL-X, and the standard scintillator Sc0 with α-particles having the energy of 5.49 MeV.