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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 |
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]
Dectris 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]
Dectris 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]
Today, we have 130 employees in three countries (Switzerland, the USA, and Japan)