Custom scintillator manufacture?
Was perusing eBay and saw someone selling scint crystals with a note that they could fabricate complete units. Got into a discussion with them and it turns out to be an actual small company that can make custom detectors. Talked about cost and such and this was the gist of the last message from them:
>I have discussed this with our engineering team. They previously developed a similar multifunction radiation detector system. We can build a custom detector using a 9 cm³ CsI(Tl) scintillator, which will provide significantly stronger signal sensitivity. The device can include: Durable metal housing, Custom logo on the enclosure, Bluetooth-connected mobile app (features can be optimized based on your needs). For group orders, the pricing would be approximately: 20 units: around $600 per unit, 30 units: around $475 per unit. In addition, for an extra $25 per unit, we can upgrade the scintillator to LaBr₃, which can provide approximately 1.3× higher signal performance compared to CsI(Tl). If this is of interest to you, we would be happy to discuss the next steps and possible configurations.
I responded that I probably could not get enough people interested, considering you can get a 5cm3 CsI(Tl) scint in a Radiacode 110 for US$369 (and get a polished, production unit), but that I would post this information just to get comments to pass back to them.
Your thoughts?
