Excillum

About Excillum

New frontiers are waiting to be explored. The world’s brightest and most advanced  X-ray sources help make it possible.

Smaller electronic devices. More powerful processors. More complex microstructures. All of these trends have driven technological development and social change. And all make electronic components increasingly difficult to inspect. As current X-ray inspection systems reach their limits, Excillum X-ray sources are opening new windows into microscopic features and defects that, until now, have been hard to inspect.

At Excillum, we’re therefore convinced that a new era of scientific innovation awaits for those capable of harnessing the most powerful laboratory-scale X-ray sources and the most advanced electron-beam technology. And we’re not alone. Right now, hundreds of researchers and manufacturers around the world are seeing, imaging and analyzing details that were previously nearly impossible to capture in a laboratory or manufacturing environment.

Based on the original success of the Excillum MetalJet source, we remain dedicated to serving this global community of scientists, manufacturers and industry partners with a constantly expanding range of advanced X-ray source technologies for new and emerging applications.

Our mission

Our mission is to enable new science, improve medicine and enhance manufacturing by redefining the X-ray tube. Wherever new opportunities and applications emerge, we pursue them relentlessly together with the scientific and industry pioneers who transform technological advances into meaningful results.

Our story

Excillum is a global leader in the field of advanced microfocus and nanofocus X-ray sources. Founded in 2007 by researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden, the company’s first product was the groundbreaking Excillum MetalJet, the world’s brightest microfocus X-ray tube. A few years later, the Excillum NanoTube was created based on advanced electron optics refined from the MetalJet e-beam platform, together with the latest transmission target technology. Today our fast-growing global team applies these core areas of expertise to expand our product portfolio, advance scientific progress and enable unimagined new applications together with leading academic researchers and industrial instrument developers worldwide.  Watch our video here.