The Standard for Quality and Versatility in Single Crystal XRD

New PHOTON II detector with CPAD technology

• The largest monolithic active area of any pixel array
• Excellent sensitivity over a wide energy range (Cu Kα to In Kα radiation)
• Single-photon sensitivity
• No charge sharing effects, zero counting losses
• Air-cooled
• 3-year warranty

IµS 3.0 microfocus X-ray source - tailored to the needs of crystallography

• Mo or Cu or Ag radiation
• Twice the intensity of conventional microfocus sources
• Air-cooled (Watch our Air-Cooled Video)
• 3-year warranty

METALJET

• Revolutionary liquid metal X-ray source for structural biology
• Highest X-ray intensity in-house for even smaller and more challenging samples
• Self-regeneratingtarget with Ga-radiation for lower background scattering and radiation damage
• Low costs of ownership and high uptime

Advanced safety enclosures

• Compliant with the strictest radiation safety regulations
• Compliant with the new machinery directive

Goniometer

• FIXED-CHI
• KAPPA
• Best goniometer precision
• Sphere of confusion of less than 7 micrometer ensures that even your smallest sample stays reliably in the center of the X-ray beam.

Software

• APEX3 is the most complete suite for chemical crystallography
• PROTEUM3 now with a data processing pipeline for structural biology

• Fully integrated low temperature devices (optional)

Within the concept of DAVINCI.DESIGN the D8 QUEST and the D8 VENTURE use a revolutionary 3D robotic path planning algorithm to efficiently drive the goniometer, maximizing the system’s capabilities. The path planning software continuously checks the validity of the experimental setup. Hardware recognition identifies components like mirrors, collimators or beamstops automatically.

The intelligent beam path components store all important information about functionality, spatial requirements and dependencies with other components in a memory chip.

Adding the knowledge about the current position of each component provides an up-to-date 3D model of the system and allows the dynamic calculation of an efficient and safe goniometer driving path:

Watch the video on the 3D robotic model used for the path planning combined with the real instrument movements.

DAVINCI.DESIGN for Path Planning

In addition to the single source configuration of the D8 QUEST, the larger enclosure of the D8 VENTURE hosts all our high intensity sources for working on even smaller, weakly diffracting crystals: the TXS for Mo- and Cu-radiation and the METALJET offering liquid metal technology.

• Cu-radiation for absolute configuration and protein screening
• Mo-radiation for high throughput and charge density
• Ag-radiation for charge density and high pressure experiments
• Ga-radiation from METALJET X-ray source for high-end structural biology and most demanding chemical crystallography samples

The Gallium-Kα emission line – 1.34 Å – is close to that of copper for maintaining the proven benefits of Copper-Kα radiation.

Yet, Gallium’s shorter-wavelength adds a number of advantages, such as reduced radiation damage, a greatly improved signal to-noise ratio due to an increased detector sensitivity, reduced X-ray absorption by the sample and reduced scattering by both mother liquor and air. The METALJET takes advantage of all these benefits, with an ultra-intense Ga-Kα beam.

For greater flexibility the D8 VENTURE allows the combination of two X-ray sources with a highly accurate goniometer and the PHOTON 100 CMOS detector for crystallography. The result is a highly versatile instrument that allows fast and fully automated wavelength switch.

• Combination of two different wavelengths
• Fast and fully-automated wavelength switch

Charge density experiments and protein screening are now possible on one instrument. Fast high resolution data with Mo-radiation and determination of absolute structures for light atom organic compounds with Cu-radiation.

A solid state chemist’s dream: high flux density Mo-radiation for routine crystallography and Ag-radiation for charge density experiments to even smaller d-spacing, reduced absorption and improved diamond anvil cell (DAC) high pressure experiments.

Your future needs may change. Even if you don’t need a second wavelength right now, as a second source can be added to the D8 VENTURE it gives you the flexibility to easily upgrade your capabilities in the future by adding a second wavelength.

• PHOTON II detector
• FIXED-CHI or KAPPA Goniometer
• APEX3 Software
• PROTEUM3 Software
• X-ray Sources