DECTRIS CLOUD Is Now DECTRIS D.LAB: Extending The Mission From Capturing The World's Finest Data To Preserving The Scientific Knowledge That Follows. On its 20th anniversary, DECTRIS extends its mission further, from detecting the invisible to transforming it into the understandable with a platform designed to connect data, analyses, compute, and scientific context into one home for modern research.
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Modern Macromolecular crystallography (MX) relies on a foundation of trusted, highly optimized software to translate raw diffraction images into meaningful structural biology insights. For decades, XDS - the software program developed by Wolfgang Kabsch - has served as a critical component in this workflow. Max Planck Innovation and Wolfgang Kabsch have chosen to entrust DECTRIS with the long-term stewardship, distribution, and support of XDS through an exclusive licensing agreement. Through this transition, DECTRIS ensures that (a) XDS remains freely available to academic researchers without
Versatility Meets Performance: DECTRIS POLLUX on Idonano XRD instruments
On May 19, 2026, we traveled to China to meet our OEM partner IDONANO, a pioneer in China's domestic high-end XRD market. During this visit, we held a workshop giving detailed insights into the features, advantages, and benefits of POLLUX detectors. Following the workshop, we commissioned a prototype and performed the first successful tests of the new POLLUX detector on IDONANO’s laboratory XRD systems. POLLUX is an important milestone in our partnership and will unlock unprecedented performance on IDONANO’s instruments to address emerging challenges in materials science, semiconductor metrolo
DECTRIS Japan Announces Leadership Transition: Leonard Chavas Appointed as Representative Director
HIMEJI, JAPAN | April 2026 – DECTRIS Japan K.K., a subsidiary of the global leader in Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) detector technology, DECTRIS Ltd., today announces a change in its executive leadership. Dr. Takeyoshi Taguchi has stepped down as Representative Director, with Dr. Leonard Chavas appointed as his successor to lead the company into its next phase of growth.
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.
DECTRIS is pleased to announce a new option for customers buying DECTRIS ARINA® for 4D STEM for transmission electron microscopes (TEM): Point Electronic REVOLON TEM Scan Controller.
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.
DECTRIS CLOUD: Tackling the Challenges Posed by Experimental Synchrotron Data
Tackling the Challenges Posed by Experimental Synchrotron Data with DECTRIS CLOUD
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,
Today at DECTRIS, we celebrate UNESCO’s fifth World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development. We highlight the critical roles of our engineers in building high-performing detectors to advance science and progress toward a sustainable future. At DECTRIS, we have more than ten Engineering specializations across the whole product life cycle. Over 50 highly specialized and skilled engineers are actively involved in the process. They develop software, electronic circuits, and mechanical and IT solutions; they bring in expertise during production; and, finally, they commission our detectors in re
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