Aug. 7, 2006 – At the ECM 23 (European Crystallographic Meeting), Incoatec GmbH from Hamburg, Germany, a manufacturer of X-ray optics, and Bruker AXS Inc., a provider of advanced X-ray solutions for life and advanced materials sciences, launched their IuS X-ray microsource. The companies are calling it the brightest sealed-tube X-ray generator ever.

The companies say it offers numerous benefits: it has no moving parts, has a long lifetime without maintenance, is very stable, does not require water-cooling, is easy to replace, and has low cost of ownership comparable to common sealed tubes.

“For our Nanostar, Bruker AXS’s small angle X-ray scattering instrument, there is a factor of five intensity gain of the IuS over a conventional sealed-tube setup. This intensity gain is the optimum achievable value as predicted from ray tracing calculations,” said Frank Burgazy, executive vice president of Bruker AXS.