Mr. William M. Higgins Profile

William M. Higgins

Senior Scientist at CapeSym Inc

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Publications (9)

Proceedings Article | 26 September 2013 Paper

Residual gas analysis of volatile impurities in halide precursors for scintillator crystals

S. Swider, S. Motakef, A. Datta, W. Higgins

Proceedings Volume 8852, 88521P (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2034232

KEYWORDS: Chlorine, Carbon dioxide, Argon, Sulfur, Bromine, Scintillators, Crystals, Europium, Molecules, Iodine

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Proceedings Article | 17 October 2012 Paper

Application of TlBr to nuclear medicine imaging

Leonard Cirignano, Hadong Kim, Alireza Kargar, Alexei Churilov, Guido Ciampi, William Higgins, Suyoung Kim, Bradford Barber, Kyle Haston, Kanai Shah

Proceedings Volume 8508, 850803 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.961447

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Single photon emission computed tomography, Crystals, Semiconductors, Gamma radiation, Solids, Signal attenuation, Scintillators, Nuclear medicine, Semiconductor materials

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Proceedings Article | 28 September 2011 Paper

Lithium and boron based semiconductors for thermal neutron counting

Alireza Kargar, Joshua Tower, Huicong Hong, Leonard Cirignano, William Higgins, Kanai Shah

Proceedings Volume 8142, 81421P (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.899363

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Gamma radiation, Boron, Crystals, Semiconductors, Lithium, Absorption, Chemical species, Selenium, Carbon

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Proceedings Article | 3 September 2010 Paper

Continued development of room temperature semiconductor nuclear detectors

Hadong Kim, Leonard Cirignano, Alexei Churilov, Guido Ciampi, Alireza Kargar, William Higgins, Patrick O'Dougherty, Suyoung Kim, Michael Squillante, Kanai Shah

Proceedings Volume 7806, 780604 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.864147

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Mercury, Semiconductors, Gamma radiation, Spectroscopy, Crystals, Electrodes, Temperature metrology, Amplifiers, Thallium

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Proceedings Article | 12 September 2009 Paper

Dual gamma neutron detection with Cs[sub]2[/sub]LiLaCl[sub]6[/sub]

Jarek Glodo, Rastgo Hawrami, Edgar van Loef, William Higgins, Urmila Shirwadkar, Kanai Shah

Proceedings Volume 7449, 74490E (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830127

KEYWORDS: Cerium, Crystals, Sensors, Gamma radiation, Scintillators, Oscilloscopes, Luminescence, Spectroscopy, Scintillation, Homeland security

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Proceedings Article | 12 September 2009 Paper

HgS: a rugged, stable semiconductor radiation detector material

Michael Squillante, William Higgins, Hadong Kim, Leonard Cirignano, Guido Ciampi, Alexei Churilov, Kanai Shah

Proceedings Volume 7449, 74491U (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.829374

KEYWORDS: Mercury, Sensors, Crystals, Minerals, Semiconductors, Semiconductor materials, Gamma radiation, Scintillators, Manufacturing, Signal detection

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Proceedings Article | 12 September 2009 Paper

SrI[sub]2[/sub] scintillator for gamma ray spectroscopy

N. Cherepy, B. Sturm, O Drury, T. Hurst, S. Sheets, L. Ahle, C. Saw, M. Pearson, S. Payne, A. Burger, L. Boatner, J. Ramey, E. van Loef, J. Glodo, R. Hawrami, W. Higgins, K. Shah, W. Moses

Proceedings Volume 7449, 74490F (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830016

KEYWORDS: Crystals, Gamma radiation, Scintillators, Spectroscopy, Scintillation, Strontium, X-ray diffraction, Europium, Crystal optics, Single crystal X-ray diffraction

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