Hecus

Hecus X-Ray Systems GmbH or Hecus XRS for short, is a technology company based in Graz, Austria.
Founded in 1992 as M.Braun Graz Optical Systems GmbH as a spinoff from the public research organisation
Austrian Academy of Sciences ("Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften").
Hecus XRS main area of business is to provide complete system solutions in small- and
wide-angle X-ray scattering (SWAXS)
for nanostructure analysis.
History
Hecus XRS develops, manufactures and supplies purpose-taylored X-Ray nanoanalytical instruments for industry and research institutions. The strength of Hecus XRS lies in its traditional specialization on Small- and Wide-Angle X-Ray Scattering (S/WAXS). Through cooperation with top researchers worldwide, Hecus XRS has been pioneering this important analytical methodology for two decades and stands now as the technology leader in this field.
* 1992 Foundation as M. Braun Graz Optical Systems GmbH
* 2005 Acquisition of the detector business from M. Braun, Germany
* 2003 - System3 - First modular, fully automatic SAXS/SWAXS
* 2005 - SAXeye - First modular 1D and 2D SAXS/SWAXS family
* 2005 - M. Braun - sells PSD detector business branch to Hecus
* 2006 - S3-MICRO - First point-focusing microfocus SAXS technology
* 2007 - GISAXS - First laboratory system for thin-film analysis
* 2009 - S3-MICROpix - Integration of Pixel Detector
* 2010 - S3-MICROcaliX - Simultaneous SWAXS & Microcalorimentry
Fields of Application
Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a non-invasive analytical technique to investigate the structure of non-crystalline or partly crystalline materials at the length scale of one to several hundred nanometres. In its combination with wide-angle scattering (SWAXS) the information range covers both the supra- or macromolecular domain as well as the interatomic distances in small molecules or crystals.
The fields of application cover the following important areas:
* Polymers
* Liquid Crystals
* Powders & Cream Formulations
* Biopolymers
* Biomaterials
* Catalysts
* Nanomaterials
* Coatings & Films

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