MYTHEN2 is the Swiss army knife of detectors: small, highly modular, useful in many applications, and designed and produced in Switzerland! Now, with its new upgrades, it goes one step further and offers two new benefits to its users: vacuum compatibility in synchrotron (X) and laboratory (R) products, as well as frame rates that are four times higher than those of the MYTHEN2 R product line.

For Photron-X, making the hidden visible comes with a pragmatic approach to customers. This company specializes in servicing and upgrading all sorts of X-ray instruments and keeps the quality, cost, and time effort at the optimal level. There, an old powder X-ray diffractometer can get new life in only a couple of steps, and the results might be more than surprising! In this interview, Hannes Mio, the brain behind the company, describes how the increased frame rates of the upgraded MYTHEN2 R are used to perform a continuous scan in a D5000 Siemens X-ray diffractometer to optimize the measurement speed and quality of the collected data.

A novel setup for multibeam 3D X-ray microscopy in a lab relies on polycapillary optics and EIGER2 R 500k detector to enable easier and faster measurements, and higher quality data. This application note includes examples of high-resolution experimental geometry, plenoptic X-ray microscopy and X-ray microtomography.