Philips® SEM Scintillators, P47P, 20mm x 2mm

Often taken for granted or misunderstood, the scintillator is a fundamental component of your microscope. We have been manufacturing and recoating the finest in scintillators since 1972. Signal-to-noise ratio, brightness, and longevity are the most critical measures of scintillator quality. At one time, response time was considered an issue but today virtually all commercially available scintillators have adequate response time for a SEM (less than 100 ns.) Basically scintillators are phosphor on a substrate. The smoothness of the surface and the conductivity determines the signal-to-noise ratio. When, new, almost any SEM scintillator will give sufficient brightness to obtain adequate images, however, different types of scintillators lose their brightness at different rates. We offer P47P (P47 phosphor powder on quartz), and YAP:Ce scintillators. Crystalline scintillators like YAP:Ce last the longest (if contamination is minimal) however, they are not always the brightest. P47P scinti