Acquire ESRF Technologies

 As a world leading synchrotron, the ESRF has developed some unique technologies and equipment that makes it one of the three most reliable synchrotrons of the world. The ESRF believes that these innovations which are used daily for its own user programmes, should also be of benefit to other institutes and industry.

Selected developments and technologies are available to companies directly from the ESRF or as licensed technology. It is on that basis that the ESRF has developed its first spin-off, Small Infinity, for the commercialisation of first-class atomic force microscopes (AFM).

Our technology transfer policy

• promotes the use of ESRF technologies to benefit society through licensing to companies who turn them into successful commercial products;
• supports the innovative goal of the ESRF by generating licensing income which is recycled to our user and development programmes, and contributes to the recognition of the inventors;
• develops partnerships with local and international industrial networks.

For more information, please contact Dr Edward MITCHELL, Head of Business Development.

Our licenses

See our in-house production

Beamline Instrumentation

X-BPM sensors and ionisation chamber beam position monitors

Licensed to Danfysik

Sagittal benders

Licensed to Danfysik
Licensed to Bruker Advanced Supercon GmbH

Bimorphe variable curvature mirrors

Licensed to Horiba Scientific

Mirror benders

Licensed to IRELEC

2 KB optical systems for focusing X-ray beam

Licensed to IRELEC

Monochromators Using Diamond Crystals

Licensed to CINEL

High Precision miniature X-ray Slits

Licensed to JJ X-Ray

X-ray CCD and software for beamline alignment

Licensed to SESO

Hexapod and precision jacks

Licensed to Ateliers Peyronnard

APD counter systems

Licensed to Cyberstar S.A.

Wide-beam mechanical chopper

Licensed to MAATEL

Cooled UHV compatible refractive lens

Licensed to JJ X-Ray

Flow reactor for X-ray studies

Licensed to Leiden Probe Microscopy

Storage Ring Instrumentation

Permanent magnet based insertion devices

Licensed to Danfysik
Licensed to Bruker Advanced Supercon GmbH

Control and Data Analysis

PCI cards

Licenced to SECAD

Detectors

Detector interconnection systems

Licensed to Canberra Eurisys

Components for gas filled detectors with fast parallel readout

Licensed to Bruker AXS