detector to operate routinely at a synchrotron. In 2006, the company DECTRIS was founded as a spin-off from PSI and successfully commercialized the PILATUS technology. Since then, detectors based on the PILATUS and EIGER systems have been widely used for small-angle scattering, coherent scattering, X-ray powder diffraction and spectroscopy applications. The main reasons for the success of HPC detectors are the direct detection of individual photons and the accurate determination of scattering and diffraction intensities over a wide dynamic range. See also Semiconductor detector Microstrip detector Medipix PILATUS (detector) References Particle detectors Ionising radiation detectors CERN