Dectris Ltd (German: Dectris AG, French, Italian, Romansh: Dectris SA) is a Swiss company producing photon counting X-ray detectors. These are used in synchrotrons worldwide[2][3][4][5][6] as well as in laboratory imaging.[7]
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| Industry | Electrical equipment |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Matthias Schneebeli (CEO) |
| Products | X-ray detectors |
Number of employees | 130 (2021)[1] |
| Website | www |
History
editDectris was founded in 2006 as a spin-off company by Christian Brönnimann, a researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute, and three colleagues, Eric F. Eikenberry, Markus Näf, and Petr Salficky.[8] In 2007, the company sold its first detector unit in the PILATUS series. In 2008 the MYTHEN detector was introduced followed by the EIGER in 2015.[9] In January 2022, Christian Brönnimann, who had been CEO since 2006, stepped down and Matthias Schneebeli (CTO since 2017) became the new CEO.[10][11]
Products
editDectris mainly develops and produces hybrid photon counting X-ray detectors. Three different product lines have been launched which all take their names from Swiss mountains, Pilatus, Mythen, and Eiger. All detectors use direct detection, meaning that X-ray photons are directly converted to electron-hole pairs instead of using visible light as an intermediary. This improves efficiency significantly and enables much higher count rates.[12] Nearly two thirds of all structures in the Protein Data Bank have been solved using dectris detectors, legacy CCD detectors making up most of the rest.[13]
In recent years Dectris has developed and started producing electron detectors.[9]
References
edit- ^ "DECTRIS Turns 15!". Dectris. 2021-09-27. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
Today, we have 130 employees in three countries (Switzerland, the USA, and Japan)
- ^ "Diamond receives two new detectors with the latest technology to enable world-leading synchrotron research". Diamond. Diamond Light Source. 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Pilatus 2M". ESRF. European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Area Detectors". APS. Argonne National Laboratory. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Beamline 8.3.1". ALS. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "BL4-2 Detectors". SSRL. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Bruker and DECTRIS Announce the Integration of the New EIGER2 R 250K Detector into the D8™ X-Ray Diffraction Systems". AZO Materials. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "DECTRIS Ltd wins Swiss Economic Award 2010". www.myscience.ch. 2010-06-04. Event occurs at CEST00:00:00. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ a b "DECTRIS Milestones". Dectris. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "Christian Brönnimann gibt das Amt als CEO bei Dectris ab". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "New DECTRIS CEO: "Our employees' knowledge and abilities are our greatest asset"". Dectris. 2021-07-06. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
- ^ "An Introduction to the X-Ray Applications of the EIGER2 R 500K X-Ray Detector". AZoM.com. 2018-11-06. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
- ^ "Application Note Macromolecular Crystallography". dectris.com. Retrieved 2023-10-17.