Why Is Thallium Used In NaI Detector?

Why Is Thallium Used In NaI Detector? The doping of the NaI crystal with thallium improves the scintillation efficiency by improving the light emission due to the improved recombination by light emission of electrons and holes at the dopant site. Why the NaI crystal is activated with thallium Tl when used as a scintillator? Sodium