News
Success Story: Structure of the Eukaryotic Ribosome at 3.0 Å Resolution
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.
Fine-sliced data collection with PILATUS detectors
Fine ϕ-slicing exploits the fast and noise-free readout of PILATUS detectors and leads to substantially improved scaling statistics and anomalous signal: Mueller, M., Wang, M., & Schulze-Briese, C. (2011). Optimal fine ϕ-slicing for single-photon-counting pixel detectors. Acta Cryst. D68, 42-56.
PILATUS 2M-F enables high speed protein crystallography at Swiss Light Source
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.
2011 MRS Fall Meeting
We are looking forward to welcoming you at the DECTRIS booth (Nr. 909) and to introduce you to our newest product:
PILATUS 300K 20Hz: For Your Laboratory
PILATUS hybrid-pixel detectors have revolutionized data acquisition at synchrotron beamlines. With the advent of the PILATUS 300K 20Hz, DECTRIS brings all the advantages of the hybrid-pixel technology to your laboratory. Read more about our newest detector specifically designed for laboratory experiments here.
IUCr Congress 2011 Announcements
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:
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Superior data processing performance
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Stable high-speed data transfer
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Fast local storage for several weeks of regular user operation
PILATUS image viewer ALBULA
Key features:
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Extremely fast user interface
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Slave mode for real-time visualization of PILATUS data
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Powerful tools for data analysis
Prerequisites:
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RHEL 5 or RHEL 6 based Linux distributions
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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
Event, 22.08.2011
Visit DECTRIS at the IUCr Meeting in Madrid, Spain
22. August - 30. August 2011, We are looking forward to welcoming you at our DECTRIS Lunch Time Symposium and User Meeting on Thursday, 25. August 2011
DECTRIS at IUCr2011 Congress
We are looking forward to welcoming you at the following events hosted by DECTRIS:
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DECTRIS Lunchtime Seminars: Thursday, August 25th, 13:00
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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.
Event, 03.07.2011
Visit DECTRIS at the iWoRID Meeting in Zurich, Switzerland
03. July - 07. July 2011
Success Story: Room-temperature in situ Se-SAD with X-CHIP and PILATUS 6M
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.
Event, 28.05.2011
Visit DECTRIS at the ACA Meeting in New Orleans, USA
28. May - 02. June 2011,
ACA 2011 - New Products
FAST Detectors
Ultimate speed at highest quality
| New model | Frame rate |
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| PILATUS 1M-F |
135 Hz
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| PILATUS 2M-F |
60 Hz
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| PILATUS 6M-F |
25 Hz
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HIGH-Energy Sensors
450 µm Silicon sensors for enhanced high-energy efficiency
Event, 10.05.2011
Visit DECTRIS at the E-MRS Meeting in Nice, France
10. May - 12. May 2011,
Dr. Stefan Brandstetter, will give a talk entitled "Pilatus and Mythen: Powerful detectors for advanced X-Ray studies" during the session M
Event, 28.04.2011
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.
Event, 01.10.2010
Dectris Ltd. welcomes Dr. Clemens Schulze-Briese as the new head of Marketing & Sales and member of the Executive Board!
He is responsible for all activities concerning marketing, distribution and sales. Together with our sales assistant Isabel Mathys he will be happy to answer all questions related to purchase of our high-tech products.
After his physics studies at the university of Hamburg followed by a dissertation at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Clemens joined the Swiss Light Source at Paul Scherrer Institut. During the last 10 years he designed and built the protein crystallography beamlines, which feature the first PILATUS 6M pixel detector. Since Jan 2009 Clemens led the activities of the SLS laboratory for Macromolecules and Bioimaging.
Event, 04.06.2010
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.
Event, 23.03.2010
Visit DECTRIS at the ACA Meeting in Chicago,
24. July - 29. July 2010,
Event, 23.03.2010
Visit DECTRIS at the ECM Meeting in Darmstadt,
29. August - 02. September 2010,
Event, 23.03.2010
Visit DECTRIS at the AsCA Meeting in Busan, Korea,
31. Oktober - 03. November 2010,
Event, 11.11.2009
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.
Event, 11.08.2009
Visit DECTRIS at the ECM Meeting in Istanbul,
16. - 21. August 2009,
Booth 16
Event, 11.08.2009
Visit DECTRIS at the SRI Meeting in Melbourne,
27. September - 02. October 2009,
Booths 7 and 20
Event, 08.06.2009
Visit DECTRIS at the ACA Meeting in Toronto,
25. - 30. July 2009,
Booths 319 and 321
Event, 12.12.2008
Open House at DECTRIS with a lot of guests. Subsequent newspaper article in the Aargauer Zeitung.
Event, 01.10.2008
We have a new address:
DECTRIS Ltd.
Neuenhoferstrasse 107
5400 Baden
Switzerland
Tel: +41 56 500 21 00
Fax: +41 56 500 21 01
See Contact for more details
19.09.2008
Visit DECTRIS at the IEEE in Dresden,
19. - 25.October 2008
Event, 31.07.2008
Visit DECTRIS at the IUCr in Osaka, Japan
23. - 31.August 2008
Event, 06.12.2007
Christian Broennimann, Eric F. Eikenberry and Roland Horisberger win the "BESSY Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation 2007"
Event, 08.11.2007
New positions open
Event, 20.07.2007
Visit DECTRIS at the 9th annual Conference on Biology and Synchrotron Radiation, 13 - 17 August, Manchester, England,Stand 22
Event, 26.03.2007
Visit DECTRIS at the Hannover Messe.
16. - 20. April 2007
Event, 22.02.2007
DECTRIS is one of the 17 laureates of the Swiss Technology Awards 2007. More infos: www.swisstechnology-award.ch
Event, 22.11.2006
First operation of the PILATUS 6M at the beamline X06SA at the SLS. First results show the great potential of the new technology.
Event, 28.09.2006
DECTRIS founded.