Plastic Scintillators VS Other Radiation Detectors
This article contains a comparison of plastic scintillators against various radiation detectors, including GM counters, NaI(Tl) scintillators, proportional counting tubes, CsI(Tl) scintillators, CZT detectors, high-purity germanium detectors, and silicon semiconductor detectors from the perspective of their applications.
Plastic Scintillators for Scintillation Dosimetry
This article explains why plastic scintillators are promising for scintillation dosimetry.
How to Choose Your Fast Timing Scintillators
In this guidance to fast timing scintillators, Shalom EO will use our professional knowledge to help you learn about how to choose the best fast timing scintillators that suits your uses, by facilitating you to understand what is decay time and its implications in the application senario, and offering detailed explanation of the critical performance parameters that you should consider when selecting your scintillator materials.
Yttrium-stabilized zirconia crystal (YSZ)-Introduction
Learn about Yttrium-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) crystals: structure, properties, advantages, and wide applications in fuel cells, sensors, optics, and high-temperature engineering. A comprehensive introduction to stabilized zirconia crystals.
LYSO:Ce Crystal Tutorial, Properties & Applications
Learn about LYSO:Ce scintillator crystals — their composition, luminescence mechanism, Czochralski growth process, and applications in PET, NDT, and radiation detection.
Technical Overview of Ce:YAG Crystal
Comprehensive technical explanation of Ce:YAG (Cerium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) scintillation crystals, covering material composition, emission mechanism, manufacturing process using the Czochralski method, and applications in X-ray imaging, LED phosphors, and radiation detection.
Ce:YAG Scintillator Screen with Fused Silica Substrate
Detailed technical explanation of Ce:YAG scintillator crystals bonded to fused silica substrates. Includes material composition, fluorescence emission principles under X-ray excitation, thin-film scintillation behavior, adhesive-layer structure, manufacturing processes, and applications in high-resolution X-ray and soft X-ray imaging.
Guide to Scintillator’s Application in Nuclear Monitoring
This technical article will provide a systematic introduction to scintillators used in the nuclear & radiation monitoring application, including radioactive isotope identification (RIID), surface contamination monitor, and fixed online dose rate monitoring, stating the technical challenges for each application and suggesting solutions based on scintillators.
Scintillators for PET (Positron Emission Tomography) Application
This article discusses how to implement PET medical imaging technology using scintillator arrays. It provides a comprehensive overview of the principles of PET medical imaging technology, the working principle of scintillator pixelated arrays in PET technology, and typical scintillator materials suitable for PET medical imaging, namely LYSO (Ce) cerium-doped yttrium lutetium silicate, GAGG (Ce) cerium-doped gadolinium gallium garnet, and the emerging technology of LaBr3 (Ce)-based scintillator arrays, which are suitable for time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET).