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YMT provide laser crystals
used in different applications.
Thallium doped Sodium Iodide is
the most widely used scintillation material. NaI(Tl) is used
traditionally in nuclear medicine, environmental monitoring , nuclear
physics, aerial survey, well logging and many other applications.
The greatest light output among scintillators, convenient emission
range coincident with maximum efficiency region of photomultiplier(PMT)
with bialkali photocatodes, the possibility of large-size crystals
production, and their low prices compared with other scintillation
materials compensate to a great extent for the main NaI(Tl)
disadvantage, namely, the hygroscopicity, on account of which NaI(Tl)
can be used only in hermetically sealed assemblies.
Inorganic polycrystalline scintillator crystals
are widely recognized as suitable alternatives to single crystal
scintillators in many applications where thermal and mechanical shock
are encountered. This crystal offers ruggedness combined with a
scintillation performance identical to single crystal NaI(Tl).
Scintillation properties of NaI:
| Density(g.cm-3) |
3.67 |
| Radiation length(cm) |
2.59 |
| Decay constant(us) |
0.23us |
| Emission peak(nm) |
415 |
| Light yield(%NaI:Tl) |
100 |
| Melting point(°C) |
651 |
| Hardness(Mho) |
2 |
| refractive Index |
1.85 |
| Hygroscopicity |
Strongly |
| Cleavage |
(100) |
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