Excillum is the company behind the world’s brightest X-ray tube. The MetalJet is based on the unique metal-jet technology where the traditional solid anode of X-ray tubes is replaced with a jet of liquid metal.
The metal-jet technology was invented by our company’s founders in 1999. Today, we offer a growing range of the MetalJet and NanoTube X-ray sources based on our key technologies, to customers all over the world.
We are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, where we have R&D, engineering and production all in house. We cover the world with our own sales and service & support teams, and via a network of OEM partners and distributors.
As a leading X-ray source manufacturer, we take pride in the contributions we make to new science that is built upon the foundations of the scientists who made advancements in this field. This year we celebrate 125 years since Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays on November 8, 1895. Read this article where we look at the history of these rays once “unknown” that are now ubiquitous.