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Do not miss the presentation 'DECTRIS Solid State Position Sensitive Detectors in Synchrotron Applications' by Clemens Schulze-Briese on Monday, March 26th at 18:40 in the Application Session.

Date:    March 26th 9:00 to 27th 14:00, 2012
Venue: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

Notkestraße 85
D-22607 Hamburg
Germany

For more information, please contact
Dr. Clemens Schulze-Briese, +41 56 500 2100
CSO, Head of Marketing & Sales

Accurate rate correction factors are important for X-ray data acquired at high photon fluxes. A recently implemented Monte Carlo simulation is able to compute the correction factors taking into account the detector settings as well as the time structure of the X-ray beam at the synchrotron. The results of the simulation show good agreement with experimentally determined correction factors. Furthermore, it is shown that the use of fast detector settings in combination with an optimized time structure of the X-ray beam allows for measurements up to rates of 10⁷ photons per second and pixel.

J. Synchrotron Rad. (2012) 19, 347-351

Marat Yusupov and colleagues determined the crystal structure of the eukaryotic ribosome at 3.0 Å resolution, exploiting the unique features of the PILATUS 6M hybrid-pixel detector. The atomic model of the largest asymmetrical structure determined by X-ray crystallography to date is a long-awaited breakthrough in understanding structure and function of ribosomes.

Beamline X06DA (PXIII) at Swiss Light Source recently installed a PILATUS 2M-F of our Fast Series. This is the fastest detector in standard user operation at a macromolecular crystallography beamline to date. Read more here.

DECTRIS signs license agreement with PSI for Eiger technology

Baden, August 22nd, Dectris Ltd. and the Paul Scherrer Institute are proud to announce the signature of the licence agreement for the new EIGER detector technology.

Link to official press release (in German)

New Products

PILATUS Processing Unit
Key features:

• Superior data processing performance
• Stable high-speed data transfer
• Fast local storage for several weeks of regular user operation

PILATUS image viewer ALBULA
Key features:

• Extremely fast user interface
• Slave mode for real-time visualization of PILATUS data
• Powerful tools for data analysis

Prerequisites:

• RHEL 5 or RHEL 6 based Linux distributions
• Native OpenGL support

ALBULA free download:
please register for download here.

New documentation and manuals available

PILATUS CBF header documentation:
please download here.

PILATUS user manual:
please download here.

We are looking to meeting you at our booth 79/80 at IUCr XXII

We are looking forward to welcoming you at the following events hosted by DECTRIS:

• DECTRIS Lunchtime Seminars: Thursday, August 25th, 13:00
• DECTRIS User Meeting: Thursday, August 25th, 13:45

The events take place in meeting rooms Caracas-Bogota-La Pazon the 2nd floor of the conference center. In addition to these events, DECTRIS will be present at the exhibition throughout the congress to answer all your questions about our products and to discuss your feedback and ideas for new applications. More information on the events can be found here.

Se-SAD data acquired at room temperature from a novel crystallization chip with a PILATUS detector was of excellent quality and led to successful experimental phasing.

Read the full application note here.

FAST Detectors

Ultimate speed at highest quality

PILATUS-F flyer

HIGH-Energy Sensors

450 µm Silicon sensors for enhanced high-energy efficiency

SENSOR450 flyer

Dectris wins Aargauer Unternehmerpreis 2011 in the category Industry and Production company.

Dectris was awarded the price of 10'000 CHF, sponsored by the Aargauer Kantonalbank.

DECTRIS press information

DECTRIS is proud winner of the Swiss Economic Award 2010. The award is the most important  
decoration for outstanding swiss companies founded less than 6 years ago.

Visit DECTRIS at the ECM Meeting in Darmstadt, 
29. August - 02. September 2010,

DECTRIS congratulates Venkatraman Ramakrishnan for his Nobel Price in Chemistry 2009. Members of his group were the first users of the PILATUS 6M detector at PSI in Oct 2006. One of the papers cited by the Nobel Price Committee was measured with the Pilatus 6M: Insights into substrate stabilization from snapshots of the peptidyl transferase center of the intact 70S ribosome. More information can be found on YouTube or PhysicsToday.

Visit DECTRIS at the SRI Meeting in Melbourne, 
27. September - 02. October 2009, 
Booths 7 and 20

Article about DECTRIS in the magazine of the Swiss Economic Forum

Article about DECTRIS and Elfab in the Polyscope magazine.

Visit DECTRIS at the IEEE in Dresden, 
19. - 25.October 2008

DECTRIS is on TV: Short coverage on TeleM1

Christian Broennimann, Eric F. Eikenberry and Roland Horisberger win the "BESSY Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation 2007"

Visit DECTRIS at the 9th annual Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation, 13 - 17 August, Manchester, England,Stand 22

C. Broennimann is part of the "Swiss start-up national team"

Visit DECTRIS at the Hannover Messe.
16. - 20. April 2007

Summary of DECTRIS by the Swiss Technology Award.

First operation of the PILATUS 6M at the beamline X06SA at the SLS. First results show the great potential of the new technology.