Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction

Proto is excited to launch its newest product line, the single-crystal x-ray diffraction line. Your research deserves the best equipment on the market, and Proto is committed to delivering the most advanced, configurable systems available. From our proprietary high-precision bearings to advanced detector and micro-focus x-ray source options, your instrument will provide years of meaningful results.

With systems optimized for small-molecule crystallography and high-pressure crystallography, Proto offers versatile single-crystal XRD instruments to best suit your application.

Determining the structure of single-crystal materials is imperative to fully understanding their functions, and single-crystal XRD is an established and trusted method for investigating these materials.

AXRD Benchtop Powder Diffractometer

Small-Molecule Crystallography

For structural determination of small molecules.
Featuring the XRT MF x-ray source.

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AXRD Benchtop Powder Diffractometer

High-Pressure Crystallography

For investigation of crystalline materials at high pressure.
Bringing the power of a beamline to your home lab with MetalJet x-ray sources.

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Software and Applications

XCollect SC is Proto's flagship application for single crystal collection and analysis. XCollect SC makes it easy to align and index samples, as well as develop optimal collection strategies to suit your data quality needs. It also seamlessly integrates and merges scan data so that it can easily be exported to structure solution programs.

Features and Capabilities:

  • Easy-to-use sample centering and measurement tools
  • Quick scan, spot finding, and indexing
  • Collection strategy generation
  • Support for chi and kappa goniometers
  • Data refinement and integration
  • Merging of intensities from multiple scans
  • Report generation
  • Data export
powder diffraction software

ADVANCED PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS

At Proto, we always choose the best possible x-ray detection systems for our equipment, which is why all of our single-crystal diffractometers are equipped with photon-counting detectors. These detectors directly capture x-ray photons and convert them into an electrical signal. This direct conversion is advantageous because it yields zero dark noise, zero readout noise, high dynamic range, and excellent signal to noise. With our high-quality photon-counting detector options, you don't need to worry about detector saturation, allowing you to focus on your data.

SPD silicon point detector

DECTRIS® PILATUS4 R CdTe 260K DETECTOR

Photon-counting area detector

Dectris Mythen 1D

DECTRIS® PILATUS4 R CdTe 1M DETECTOR

Increased panel size

Dectris 1K

DECTRIS® EIGER2 R 1M

High spatial resolution

Dectris Eiger

DECTRIS® EIGER2 R 4M

Highest speed and resolution

high-brilliance X-ray sources

Proto XRT MF x-ray tube.

PROTO XRT MF

Sealed microfocus x-ray tube available with a Cu or Mo anode.

MetalJet x-ray source.

METALJET SOURCES

Available models: C2, D2+ 70 kV, E1+ 160 kV; Ga or In anodes.

cooler options

Oxford Cryostream 1000 cooler

OXFORD CRYOSTREAM 1000

Open-flow cryogenic gas cooler with a temperature range of 80–400 Kelvin (Standard) or 80–500 Kelvin (Plus or Compact).

Oxford N-Helix cooler

OXFORD N-HELIX

Nitrogen or helium dual-flow cooler with a temperature range of 28–300 Kelvin (helium) or 100–300 Kelvin (nitrogen).

Oxford Cobra cooler

OXFORD COBRA

Cryogen-free open-flow cooler with a temperature range of 80–400 Kelvin (Standard) or 80–500 Kelvin (Plus).