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.
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 any version-bound time restrictions, (b) establishes a transparent and stable licensing framework for commercial users, and (c) introduces a rigorous reproducibility framework to track algorithmic consistency across future hardware generations.
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 metrology, and nanotechnology.
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.
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.
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.
DECTRIS announces Andreas Förster Travel Grant Recipients 2025
2024 was a milestone year for DECTRIS CLOUD, DECTRIS’ platform for scientific insight. Meet Ludmila Leroy, Scientific Engagement Engineer at DECTRIS, as she shares her journey with DECTRIS CLOUD and discusses its scientific impact on the research community.
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.
