ndustrial scintillators
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Outline
Toshiba Materials offers machinable scintillators containing no hazardous cadmium.
Advantages
- Machinable to wide area sheet like scintillators
- Machinable to highly transparent ceramics
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Specifications
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GOS scintillators |
Conventional
scintillators |
| Material |
Gd2O2S:Pr |
CdWO4 |
| Crystal type |
Polycrystal |
Single crystal |
| Maximum emission wave length(nm) |
512 |
480 |
| Light output (relative value) |
1.2 |
1 |
| Persistence |
3µs |
5µs |
| 3-ms afterglow (%) |
0.15 |
<0.1 |
| Transparency |
Nearly transparent |
Transparent |
| Density |
7.34 |
7.99 |
| Temperature dependence of sensitivity |
0.1%/°C |
0.2%/°C |
| Environment safety |
Exellence |
Hazardous cadmium |
| Machinability |
Excellence |
Cleavage sensitive |
| Cost |
Excellence |
Excellence |
About scintillators
Some substances emit light when stimulated by light or radioactive rays. Of these phenomena, those emissions by radioactive rays are called scintillation, and the substances that produce scintillation are called scintillators.
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