11/01/17
The first colour images taken with XCAM’s next generation C3D2 camera controller have been successfully captured and transmitted from space. C3D2 is one of three payloads aboard the AlSat Nano CubeSat; a joint nanosatellite mission between the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL) and the...
29/7/16
The National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre (NSRRC) in Taiwan has just had their second XCAM CAVACam system shipped. The camera will be used to study x-ray interactions in the solid state. The system is the second to be used at the facility. The first was installed in 2014...
11/7/16
XCAM was invited to attend the Vacuum Ultraviolet and X-ray conference at ETH in Zurich to present a poster on the development of the RIXSCam system, one of which was recently commissioned on the ADRESS beamline at the Swiss Light Source. The biannual conference is the third...
12/5/16
XCAM has been named the winner of the Made in the Midlands 2016, run by Insider Midlands magazine. The award was in the Advanced Manufacture / Technology category, where XCAM’s camera systems were judged to be outstanding among the competition. Details of the judges' comments for...
30/3/16
XCAM has been shortlisted for the ‘Insider Made in the Midlands’ 2016 award, in the advanced manufacture section, as a result of its development of a new camera system for high-end scientific applications. The RIXSCam™ has been developed in consultation with the researchers at one...
4/2/16
Drs Thorsten Schmitt and Bernd Schmitt from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) have visited XCAM to witness testing of the new RIXSCam...
17/10/15
Established in 1995 as a spin-out of the space research centre at Leicester University, we initially focussed on developing control systems for CCD detectors. In 2003, we started to take on work designing and making complete camera systems in response to enquiries for systems...
15/7/14
XCAM camera electronics has recently been launched into space on the UK Space Agency's first Cube Satellite.
The camera, called C3D, was led by the Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) at the Open University. C3D houses three new CMOS sensors from e2v technologies into a...
1/7/14
XCAM has been awarded a grant by Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to perform a feasibility study for an in-situ tritium monitor for use in bore-holes at nuclear sites. XCAM has already developed technology which enables digital images to be taken of samples containing...
20/11/13
This contract, under a programme funded by the European Space Agency, will see the company developing a prototype particulates-monitor capable of monitoring the deposition and redistribution of 5 micron dust particles in real-time. This monitor will form a proof-of-concept...
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