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TI CsI, Na CsI,CsI Scintillator Crystals

13 Aug 2019

Description

TI:CsI, Na:CsI,CsI Scintillator Crystals

TI:CsI is one of the brightest scintillators. It has most of its emission in the long wavelength part of the spectrum (>500nm), it is well-suited for photodiode readout. TI:CsI crystal has high light yield, no cleavage surface, low melting point and easy growth. It has good optical properties, mechanical properties, physical and chemical stability and high photoelectric conversion efficiency. It is a scintillator with excellent comprehensive performance. It has been widely used in many fields, such as Security check, Detection of neutrinos, Detection of neutrinos andγ-ray, XCT.

Pure CsI is also known as a scintillator but exhibits rather different properties. It exhibits fast (~10 ns) emission, peaking at 310 nm, but its scintillation yield at room temperature is very low. But its light yield at 77 K reaches an impressive 100,000 ph/MeV, that makes pure CsI a very attractive scintillator for detector applications at low temperatures.

Na-doped cesium iodide (Na:CsI) is an important alkali metal halide inorganic scintillator that is widely used as laser-stimulable transparent film and X-ray detection materials. Na:CsI has peaking emission at 420 nm, and its decay time is about 630 ns.As an inorganic scintillator, Na:CsI has  relatively high luminescence intensity and effective atomic number compared to organic scintillator. Recently, it is found that Na:CsI is a promising suitable detection material for dark matter scientific exploration. 

Scintillators with fast decay time characteristics have always been the radiation detection materials pursued by high-energy physics experiments, nuclear physics and positron emission tomography. They are beneficial for high count rate and time resolution of nanosecond and sub-nanosecond orders. 

Parameter

Chemical formula TI:CsI Na:CsI CsI
Density (g/cm3) 4.51 4.51 4.51
Melting point (℃) 894 621 894
Hardness (Mho) 2 2 2
Hygroscopic Slightly Yes Slightly
Cleavage No No No
Solubility (g/100gH2O) N/A N/A /
Thermal expansion coeff (C-1) 54*10-6 54*10-6 54*10-6
Chemical formula TI:CsI Na:CsI CsI
Wavelength(Max. emission) (nm) 550 420 315
Wavelength range (nm) 320- 300- 260-
Decay time (ns) 900 300 16
Light yield (photons/keV) 54 41 2
Light output relative to Nal(Tl) (%) 45 85 5
Refractive index 1.8@550nm 1.84 (@420nm) 1.95
Radiation length (cm) 1.86 1.86 1.86
Optical transmission (um) TBA TBA /
Transmittance (%) TBA TBA /
Reflection loss/surface (%) TBA TBA /
Neutron Capture Cross-section (barns) 1.47 TBA /
Afterglow (%) 0.5-5.0 0.5-5.0 /

new-pure CsI emission spectranew-Na CsI emission spectranew-TI CsI emission spectra

Feature

  • Matched with silicon photodiodes
  • High light yield
  • Low melting point
  • Easy growth
  • Good optical and mechanical properties
  • Good physical and chemical stability
  • High photoelectric conversion efficiency

Application

  • Security check
  • Detection of neutrinos
  • Detection of neutrinos γ-ray
  • XCT
  • PET
  • Position sensitive detector
  • Geological exploration
  • Industrial CT camera

 

CONTACT DETAILS
Nanjing Crylink Photonics Co.,Ltd
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No.200,Zhaoxian Road,Jiading District,Shanghai City
Nanjing
Jiangsu
210038
China
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