It has been long been appreciated that a detector with a large active area offers compelling advantages for macromolecular crystallography.
A large detector allows faster, more efficient data collection and thus better data. This is especially crucial when working with small, radiation sensitive samples.
For this reason, synchrotron beamlines typically deploy large pixel area detectors with active areas of 40,000 mm2 or larger. However, in the home laboratory costs have limited available pixel area sizes to a tiny fraction of this size.
- The new PHOTON III is the largest pixel array detector offered for the home laboratory with an active area of 200 x 140 mm2.
