Monolithic scintillators and SiPMs in time-of-flight PET detectors

Positron emission tomography (PET) is one of the key medical imaging modalities in the diagnosis and staging of e.g. cancer and cardiovascular diseases. The image formation is based on the measurement of annihilation photon pairs in the detector ring of the PET scanner. The diagnostic value of a PET image depends crucially on the image quality,...

Quantum transport in semiconductor nanowires

This thesis describes a series of experiments aimed at understanding the low-temperature electrical transport properties of semiconductor nanowires. The semiconductor nanowires (1-100 nm in diameter) are grown from nanoscale gold particles via a chemical process called vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth. The huge versatility of this material system...

Carbon supported noble metal catalysts in the oxidation of glucose 1-phosphate and related alcohols

Optimalisatie van reserve-eenheden pakketten

Experimental and theoretical analysis of fast neutron spectra

Elasto-osmometry