Inorganic scintillators

Luxium Solutions offers a variety of industry-leading inorganic crystalline scintillator materials for radiation detection and nuclear identification.

There is no perfect scintillator; each material has different properties and is suitable for different applications. However, in general we can say that the perfect scintillator must be dense, bright, and fast.

• Dense means high density and high atomic number ≳ 5 g/cm3, which increases the probability of interaction with gamma rays.
• The denser the scintillator, the more efficient it is at stopping gamma rays.
• Bright means that more visible light is produced per unit energy absorbed ≳ 30,000ph/MeV, which increases the signal and reduces the statistical uncertainty of position and energy.
• The brighter the scintillator, the easier it is to locate the point in the scintillator where the gamma ray has been stopped.
• Fast means that the scintillator creates visible light in a short pulse ≲ 100 ns, which allows faster data acquisition and reduces statistical uncertainty in position.

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