There's a hole in my detector! This specific-solution system was designed for wide-angle diffraction at high energy while keeping the direct beam for SAXS measurements. Three holes at the right-hand side of the detector window enable the user to let the direct beam pass less than 5 mm away from the detector's active area. This feature comes in addition to the advantages of PILATUS3 CdTe detectors, which offer Hybrid Photon Counting technology with excellent high-energy detection efficiency at high speed.
This detector will be a shared resource among the high-energy beamlines at PETRA III and will serve different applications including time-resolved powder diffraction, pair distribution function measurements, and small-angle scattering.