This detector features several advantages compared to current state-of-the-art CCD and imaging plate detectors. The main features include: no readout noise, superior signal-to-noise ratio, a point spread function of one pixel, readout time of 4 ms, framing time of 80 ms, a dynamic range of 1:1'048'576, high detective quantum efficiency (100%-50% from 8-16 keV) and the possibility to suppress fluorescence by an energy threshold. This energy threshold can be set individually for each pixel with a precision of 50 eV. The short readout and fast framing time allow to take diffraction data in fine-phi-slicing mode with continuous rotation of the sample without opening and closing the shutter for each frame.

Results from various x-ray experiments are presented, including diffraction data from protein and aperiodic crystals, as well as results from diffuse scattering and x-ray absorption experiments. All data have been collected at the X06SA and X05LA beamline of the SLS.

[1] Broennimann, Ch. et al., J. Synchrotron Rad., 2006, 13, 120-130.

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