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From User to Application Scientist: Meet Hans Gildenast

Meet our new Application Scientist Hans Gildenast! Hans is an experienced DECTRIS detector user and passionate crystallographer who will be working with researchers, understanding their projects, and helping them achieve their scientific goals with DECTRIS detectors.

Introducing POLLUX: Our Most Versatile XRD detector yet

We’re proud to unveil POLLUX™, the latest addition to our family of laboratory X-ray detectors - and our most versatile one yet. Built on decades of expertise in Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) technology, POLLUX was specifically developed for laboratory XRD, empowering scientists and instrument developers with fast, accurate, and energy-discriminating X-ray detection.

White Paper: The perfect match of 24keV MetalJet and CdTe HPC detector

The purpose of this white paper is to explore the synergy between Excillum’s pioneering high-energy Indium MetalJet X-ray sources and DECTRIS’s advanced CdTe HPC detectors. By combining these two state-ofthe-art technologies, new possibilities in high-energy diffraction and scattering applications can be unlocked, bridging the gap between synchrotron-based research and laboratory-scale experimentation.

Join the Launch: DECTRIS CLOUD for Scientists – Sign Up Now

We are excited to launch DECTRIS CLOUD for Scientists - a free and open platform designed to give researchers the tools, speed, and autonomy needed to push discovery forward. Whether you're based at a beamline, in a university lab, or working remotely, you can now access full scientific data processing and management tools built for scientists.

Interview with Leonard Chavas: Empowering Science Through Cutting Edge Technology

Structural biology is a field where precision meets discovery, and few understand this better than Leonard Chavas. He has been at the forefront of structural biology at synchrotrons for 25 years. As of April 1, 2025, he joins DECTRIS Japan as a sales manager. We sat down with him to discuss his journey, motivations, and vision for the future.

Fusion Record Set for Tungsten at WEST Tokamak by U.S. Researchers with Swiss PILATUS X-Ray Detector

Baden, May 6, 2024 – Researchers at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) of the U.S. Department of Energy have set a new fusion record using PILATUS3 detectors provided by DECTRIS. The record was set at WEST, the Tungsten (W) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak; the fusion device sustained a hot plasma at about 50 million degrees Celsius for six minutes. DECTRIS is proud to be part of this success, which highlights the key role of public-private partnerships, as well as that of Swiss technology based on Hybrid Photon Counting, in advancing energy research. Finally, the record was mad

Celebrating Our Global Impact In Life Sciences and Drug Development On World’s Health Day

April 7, 2024 BADEN, April 7, 2024 - On the World Health Day, we commemorate the global impact of our technology, enabling structural biologists worldwide to make important breakthroughs in public health. Since the first PILATUS X-ray detector revolutionized biological research at synchrotron light sources over fifteen years ago, progress in life sciences, drug discovery and drug development accelerated, including the development of vaccines. This faster, more structure-based approach to do biological research led to many important discoveries. As a pioneering technique in Structural Biology,

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