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Scintillator, Scintillation detectors NaI(Tl), CsI(Tl), BGO, BaF2.

Alkor Technologies offer a range of scintillation detectors: NaI(Tl), CsI(Tl), BGO, CWO, BaF2, LSO(Ce). Please send us your specifications, we will quote it within 24hrs.

Scintillator

We offer individual scintillation crystals of cylindrical shape, any technologically possible size, packaged in an aluminum case with a reflector of magnesium oxide and quartz or optical glass output window. According to customer demands it is possible to order only scintillation material in a vacuum pack.

Properties of common inorganic scintillators.

  Specific Gravity Wavelength of max. Emission Right Yield Photons/MeV Decay Time
NaI(Tl) 3.67 415 38.000 0.23
CsI(Tl) 4.51 540 65.000 0.68(64%), 3.34(36%)
CsI(Na) 4.51 420 39.000 0.46,4.18
BGO 7.13 480 8.200 0.30
BaF2-fast
BaF2-slow
4.89
4.89
220
310
1.400
9.500
0.0006
0.63
ZnSe(Te) 5.42 640   10-40*10-3
LSO:Ce 7.4 420 25.000 0.047

Applications using scintillation detectors:

1. NaI(Tl) - Anger camera detectors, oil well exploration, general purpose gamma ray, x-ray, and changed particle spectroscopy, large volume anti-Compton spectroscopy, low background radiation detection, high energy physics.

2. BaF2 scintillating crystal - Fast timing, time-of-flight applications, gamma ray and charged particle discrimination, positron emission tomography, high dose radiation fields, high energy physics.

3. CsI (Na) - Oil well exploration, large volume anti-Compton spectroscopy.

4. CsI(Tl) - High energy physics, photodiode applications, computerized axial tomography.