New Developments

Our R&D effort is focused on advancing the frontiers of knowledge and rapidly disseminating the results of our work into the hands of the end-users.  Highlights of new developments are described in this section.

  • Very Large Crystals

    For the past several years, we have been developing the manufacturing technology to grow very large high energy-resolution and dual gamma-neutron scintillator crystals. We are currently capable of producing detectors as large as 4 inches in diameter and 12 inches tall, with essentially no performance degradation relative to smaller-sized scintillators. Our roadmap calls for a scale up to 6-inches in diameter over the next two years. Contact us for more details.

  • Autonomous Mobile Detectors

    We have developed detector modules that provide very accurate directionality information to drive the mobile host, such as drones, towards the location of the radioactive source. The directional detector modules can be arbitrarily large to achieve high sensitivity and are based on high energy resolution SrI2 crystals as well as other scintillators. Contact us for more details.

  • New Scintillators

    We are currently pushing the envelops of energy resolution and timing properties of scintillators used for various radiation detection applications. These materials include Cesium Zinc Chloride, Cesium Copper Iodide, etc. Contact us for more details.

  • Satellites

    We are developing radioactive detectors for use in small as well as large satellites, opening the door for low-cost deployment of radiation detectors in space. The modular detectors can be easily assembled to achieve a wide range of frontal area sizes, and the radiation hard system electronics are designed to provide very high failure redundancy. Contact us for more details.