A group of scintillator elements that convert an incident radiation into a light is one-dimensionally arranged. Also, disclosed is a method of forming the transistor which uses laser annealing, as opposed to rapid thermal annealing, of the SIC pedestal to produce both a narrow SIC pedestal and an essentially interstitial-free collector. When a system containing the requested file connects to the service, the requested file is retrieved from that system and then distributed to the other systems which had requested the file. A method for preparing the weldless flanged catalytic converter includes disposing a movable flange over the snorkel tube of the converter. Afterwards, a gate dielectric layer is formed on the substrate.