[7] Dectris was founded in 2006 as a spin-off company by Christian Brönnimann, a researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute, and three colleagues, Eric F. Eikenberry, Markus Näf, and Petr Salficky.

[10][11] Dectris mainly develops and produces hybrid photon counting X-ray detectors.

Three different product lines have been launched which all take their names from Swiss mountains, Pilatus, Mythen, and Eiger.

This improves efficiency significantly and enables much higher count rates.

[13] In recent years Dectris has developed and started producing electron detectors.