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Scientific Applications

The scientific research market brings together users from many communities: physical sciences, materials science, chemistry, biology and medicine. Workers in these diverse fields often come together at major facilities, perhaps the most obvious example being the national and international synchrotron light sources. Whether you are based at a synchrotron, at a government institute or a university research group, you want measurement devices and controls that allow you to operate your system and collect the data you need quickly, efficiently and reliably. Since the Company was founded, Pyramid has worked with leading researchers who demand this.


We offer a broad range of established products for reading out single or multichannel detectors, controlling power supplies and motion devices, and communicating with host computers. With these building blocks, you can configure integrated experiments to gather time-resolved data, perform real-time data reduction, and synchronize timing with your other equipment. If the standard product configuration does not exactly meet your needs, we can often produce customized versions by exploiting the programmable embedded controllers used throughout our products.

Pyramid is pleased to work with FMB-Oxford Ltd to supply products to the international synchrotron beamline community. Through this relationship, our products can be found in most of the major synchrotron light sources around the world.


C400 and CP10

The ultimate sensitivity and precision afforded by pulse counting is used to capture critical data, such as diffraction patterns. The fast pulse discrimination and counting performance of the C400 and matching CP10 pre-amplifier provides excellent linearity over a high dynamic range. Multiple units can be connected together to make up a highly parallel pulse-processing system.

I3200

Many new detector designs include multiple readout channels so that both the position and shape of a beam can be measured. The I3200 has thirty-two parallel electrometer channels, and is used widely for real-time beam shape measurements.

IC101

The IC101 is a sensitive electrometer for reading out ionization chambers that monitor the beam intensity. Built-in high voltage of up to 3 kV allows large chambers to be biased correctly, and currents as small as a few pA can be measured.

I404

The quadrant diode BPM is used widely on beamlines to measure the beam position. The I404 was developed specifically for this application, and includes features such as built-in position function calculation and monitor outputs.

I200

The best data quality in a research beamline requires the maximum possible performance from crystal monochromators. The I200 includes a servo controller which can measure and stabilize the monochromatic beam by making minute adjustments to the crystal position.

I400

The blade BPM relies on accurate measurement of the electrons driven from a metal surface by the high-intensity white beam. The I400 can bias the electrodes negatively and simultaneously measure a small current at that bias potential.