Dectris Ltd (german: Dectris AG, French,

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, rm, Dectris SA) is a Swiss company producing

photon counting Photon counting is a technique in which individual photons are counted using a single-photon detector (SPD). A single-photon detector emits a pulse of signal for each detected photon, in contrast to a normal photodetector, which generates an analo ...

X-ray detectors. These are used in synchrotrons worldwide as well as in laboratory imaging.

History

Dectris was founded in 2006 as a spin-off company by Christian Brönnimann, a researcher at the

Paul Scherrer Institute The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) is a multi-disciplinary research institute for natural and engineering sciences in Switzerland. It is located in the Canton of Aargau in the municipalities Villigen and Würenlingen on either side of the River A ...

, and three colleagues, Eric F. Eikenberry, Markus Näf, and Petr Salficky. 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. In January 2022, Christian Brönnimann, who had been CEO since 2006 stepped down and Matthias Schneebeli (CTO since 2017) became the new CEO.

Products

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 The Grosser Mythen (also ''Grosse Mythe'') is a mountain in the Schwyzer Alps of Central Switzerland. The mountain lies in the canton of Schwyz, to the east of the town of Schwyz, and to the south of the village of Alpthal in the valley of the r ...

, and

Eiger The Eiger () is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais. It is the easternmost peak of a ridge crest that extends a ...

. 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. In recent years Dectris has developed and started producing electron detectors.

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