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Cerium-doped barium fluoride (Ce:BaF₂) is a high-performance scintillation material known for its exceptional radiation detection capabilities, fast response time, and strong ultraviolet transparency. Manufactured from high-purity BaF₂ and doped with cerium ions, it offers enhanced light yield, reduced afterglow, and excellent thermal stability. Ce:BaF₂ crystals are widely used in high-energy physics, medical imaging, nuclear detection, and scientific research, ensuring reliable optical performance in advanced radiation detection applications.
Product Overview:
Ce-doped Barium Fluoride (Ce:BaF₂) is a crystal material renowned for its excellent scintillation properties, making it highly suitable for applications in high-energy physics, nuclear physics, and nuclear medicine. The unique scintillation characteristics of Ce:BaF₂ include both fast and slow emission components, enabling simultaneous energy and time spectroscopy measurements. This crystal material offers superior performance in terms of energy resolution and time resolution and is chemically stable and non-hygroscopic, ensuring it maintains outstanding performance even in harsh environments.
Key Features:
- Exceptional Scintillation Performance:Ce:BaF₂ exhibits both fast and slow emission components, enabling precise simultaneous energy and time spectrum measurements. It provides high energy resolution and time resolution.
- High Stability:Its chemical stability and non-hygroscopic nature ensure that it maintains stable performance even under challenging environmental conditions.
- Excellent Optical and Mechanical Machinability:The crystal material possesses excellent optical properties and is easy to machine into various optical elements.
- Fast Response:Known for being one of the fastest scintillators, Ce:BaF₂ is particularly suitable for detecting γ-rays and charged particles, with rapid response times.
Applications:
- High-Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics:Widely used in particle detection and high-energy experiments, Ce:BaF₂ serves as a scintillator material for energy and time measurement in experimental setups.
- Nuclear Medicine:Utilized in medical imaging devices, especially for radiation detection and diagnostic purposes.
- Photon Detection and Charged Particle Measurement:Due to its excellent scintillation properties, it is used in high-resolution photon detection systems and charged particle measurements.
| Optical Property | Value |
| Transmission Range | 0.15-14 μm |
| Transmittance | >94%@0.35nm-10.8μm |
| Refractive Index | 1.462@2.58μm, 1.45@5μm |
| Reflection Loss | 6.8%@2.58μm (both surfaces) |
| 6.5%@5μm (both surfaces) | |
| 5.3%@10.35μm (both surfaces) | |
| Absorption Coefficient | 3.2×10⁻⁴@6μm |
| Structure | Cubic Crystal System |
| Cleavage Planes | <111 |
| Physical Property | Value |
| Density | 4.89 g/cm³ |
| Melting Point | 1386 ℃ |
| Thermal Conductivity | 11.72 W/(m·K) @ 286K |
| Thermal Expansion | 18.1×10⁻⁶/K @ 273K |
| Knoop Hardness | 82 kg/mm² |
| Specific Heat Capacity | 410 J/(kg·K) |
| Dielectric Constant | 7.33 @ 1 MHz |
| Young's Modulus | 53.07 GPa |
| Shear Modulus | 25.4 GPa |
| Bulk Modulus | 56.4 GPa |
| Poisson's Coefficient | 0.343 |
| Chemical Property | Value |
| Solubility | 1.7 g/L @ 20℃ |
| Molecular Weight | 175.3238 g/mol |
| Property | Value |
| Material Name | Ce:BaF₂ |
| Available Size | 3-300mm |
| Transmittance Range | 0.15-14μm |
| Crystal Structure | Monocrystalline, Polycrystalline |
| Orientation | <111>, <100>, <200> |
| Blank Shape | Round, rectangular, wedge, lens, step drilled, special-shaped |
