C. Lopez-Cuenca

TL;DR: The SwissFEL X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) facility as discussed by the authors started construction at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland) in 2013 and will be ready to accept its first users in 2018 on the Aramis hard Xray branch.

TL;DR: The application of a direct-detection charge-integrating pixel-array detector (JUNGFRAU) in macromolecular crystallography (MX) that features a uniform response on the subpixel level, linear behavior toward high photon rates, and low-noise performance across the whole dynamic range is described.

TL;DR: JUNGFRAU as discussed by the authors is the pixel detector developed at PSI for SwissFEL and it was later used for pixel detector development at IBM Research in the UK and the US.

TL;DR: MONCH as discussed by the authors is a hybrid silicon pixel detector based on charge integration and with analog readout, featuring a pixel size of 25×25 μm2 and an array of 400×400 identical pixels for a total active area of 1×1 cm2.

TL;DR: It is shown that the charge multiplication occurring in the sensor allows the detection of X-rays with improved signal-to-noise ratio in comparison with standard silicon sensors, paving the way for the development of single-photon-counting detectors in the soft X-ray energy range.