Nuclear Instruments

Name

Nuclear Instruments

Legal name

Nuclear Instruments S.r.l.

Website

https://nuclearinstruments.eu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Radiation Detection Instrumentation

NAICS

Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516), Irradiation Apparatus Manufacturing (334517), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826), X-Ray Apparatus & Tubes & Related Irradiation Apparatus (3844), Instruments For Meas & Testing Of Electricity & Elec Signals (3825)

akta.pro primary industry

Radiation Detection Instruments & Systems (Portal monitors, spectrometers, contamination monitors) (EUAKAIAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nuclear Materials Testing, Assay & Characterization Services (NDA/NDE, radiochemistry, materials analysis) (EUAKAIAL), Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SPECT/PET) (HLAHABAE)

Keywords

• Radiation detection instruments
• Waveform digitizers
• High voltage power supplies
• SiPM photon detectors
• FPGA data acquisition

Headquarters

HQ city

Lambrugo

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Scientific Instrumentation Hardware Sales: Sale of specialized scientific instruments including waveform digitizers, high-voltage power supplies for SiPM biasing, digital MCA systems, detector emulators, programmable logic units, and frontend readout systems. Products range from compact desktop units to large-scale modular systems.
2. Sci-Compiler Software Platform: Visual FPGA development platform for scientific instrumentation, sold as a software tool with licensing for firmware development and deployment on Nuclear Instruments hardware platforms.
3. Custom Detector Development Services: Bespoke design and development services for custom radiation detectors, including custom-shaped detectors, optimized scintillator coupling, 3D-printed mechanical assemblies, and detector/ASIC bonding for research institutions.
4. QUANTA Quantum Photon Counting Software: Real-time photon counting and timing software for quantum optics applications, providing acquisition and analysis capabilities for the QuantumBox system and compatible digitizer platforms.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Nuclear Instruments designs, manufactures and sells scientific instrumentation for radiation and photon detection. Its catalog spans high-voltage power supplies, high-resolution waveform digitizers, digital multichannel analyzers (MCAs), detector emulators, programmable logic units, SiPM-based detectors and integrated readout systems. The company also develops firmware (Sci-Compiler) and acquisition/analysis software (QUANTA) used by experimental physics researchers.

Product overview

Nuclear Instruments provides a portfolio of scientific instrumentation products centered on radiation detection, spectroscopy, and data acquisition for high-energy physics, astrophysics, medical imaging, and quantum optics. The portfolio spans three layers: (1) specialized hardware including high-voltage power supplies for SiPM biasing (A7590D, DT5490, A7585D/A7585DU), a range of waveform digitizers from 6 to 128 channels with sampling rates from 125 MS/s to 1 Gsps and resolutions from 12 to 14 bits (DAQ121, DAQ141, DAQ141-6, DT5560SE, R5560SE, R5560, DAQ14125, DT5571), digital MCAs for spectroscopy (DT5770, DT5771), detector emulators for system testing (DT4810, DT5800, DT5810), programmable logic units (N1081B, DT1081B, V2495), front-end readout systems for large detector arrays (FERS-5200), and photon detectors (QMPD-2/QMPD-1, i-Spector); (2) Sci-Compiler, a visual block-diagram FPGA programming platform that allows users to design custom firmware without HDL knowledge, used across the digitizer product line; and (3) QUANTA software for real-time quantum photon counting, timing, and correlation analysis. The QuantumBox system integrates the DAQ141/DAQ141-6 digitizers with QMPD-2 detector heads and QUANTA software into a complete photon-number-resolving detection chain.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sci-Compiler: Visual programming environment for FPGA-based scientific instrumentation development
• Digital Detector Emulator

Products and services

• DT5490 Desktop high-voltage desktop power supply / DT5490 high-voltage module designed to provide stable, low-noise bias for photomultiplier tubes and silicon detectors in laboratory and benchtop setups. Targeted at physicists and electronics engineers running photodetector test benches.
• A7590D High-voltage power supply module in the A75xx family providing programmable, multi-channel high-voltage biasing for photon detectors. Used by experimental physics groups requiring configurable detector bias.
• A7585D High-voltage power supply module offering programmable high-voltage output for photodetector biasing in experimental physics setups, including benchtop and rack-mounted configurations.
• A7585DU Variant of the A7585D high-voltage power supply module, providing the same programmable high-voltage biasing capability in an alternative form factor / configuration.
• DT5571 Desktop 4+1 channel 14-bit 1 GS/s waveform digitizer for high-resolution pulse recording in physics experiments. Suited to time-of-flight, coincidence and detector-readout applications at universities and national labs.
• DAQ121 High-resolution waveform digitizer module providing multi-channel pulse sampling for experimental physics data acquisition, supporting synchronized capture across detector channels.
• DAQ141 Multi-channel waveform digitizer for high-speed pulse and detector signal acquisition in physics experiments, part of the DAQ14x family.
• DAQ141-6 6-channel variant of the DAQ141 waveform digitizer providing higher channel density for multi-detector readout.
• DAQ14125 High-channel-count variant of the DAQ14x waveform digitizer family offering dense, synchronized waveform acquisition for large detector arrays.
• R5560 Rack-mountable waveform digitizer providing high-resolution, multi-channel sampling with TDlink synchronization for distributed detector readout.
• R5560SE Special Edition variant of the R5560 waveform digitizer providing extended performance/functionality for advanced experimental setups.
• DT5560SE Desktop Special Edition variant of the 5560 waveform digitizer providing high-resolution, multi-channel pulse sampling for laboratory-based detector readout.
• DT5770 Desktop digital Multichannel Analyzer (MCA) for spectroscopy and pulse-height analysis, used to characterize radiation detector outputs in research and teaching laboratories.
• DT5771 Desktop digital Multichannel Analyzer (MCA) offering pulse-height analysis with built-in detector readout, supporting spectroscopy experiments and detector characterization.
• DT4810 Digital detector emulator / pulse generator that reproduces detector output signals for testing, calibration and validation of readout electronics and DAQ systems.
• DT5800 Digital detector emulator / current generator used to simulate detector signals for benchmarking and validating radiation-detection readout chains.
• DT5810 Digital detector emulator providing programmable detector-like signals for end-to-end testing of digitizers, MCAs and trigger logic in experimental setups.
• DT1081B Desktop programmable logic unit used as a flexible trigger and logic processor inside physics experiments, allowing user-defined coincidence, gating and event-building logic.
• N1081B NIM-form-factor programmable logic unit providing flexible event-selection and trigger logic for nuclear and particle-physics setups.
• V2495 VME-form-factor programmable logic unit offering flexible trigger and event-processing logic inside VME-based detector readout systems.
• QMPD-2 SiPM (Silicon Photomultiplier) photodetector module for single- and few-photon detection, designed for use in physics experiments and quantum-optics research setups.
• i-Spector SiPM-based detector designed as a silicon-photomultiplier replacement for photomultiplier tubes, providing single-photon sensitivity in a compact, solid-state form factor for spectroscopy and photon-counting experiments.
• QuantumBox Turnkey integrated quantum-optics detection system combining a high-density SiPM array with embedded FPGA readout, intended as a ready-to-use solution for quantum-optics experiments.
• FERS-5200 Front-End Readout System (FERS) based on the CERN-developed 64-channel dual-gain ASIC, providing high-density charge readout and event timing for distributed detector systems. Sold as a complete front-end platform.
• Sci-Compiler Proprietary graphical FPGA firmware design environment allowing users to develop custom VHDL and C/C++ firmware for the company's digitizer, logic and detector-readout boards. Distributed as a licensed software tool to experimental physicists.
• QUANTA Spectroscopy software for acquisition, visualization and analysis of radiation-detection data from the company's MCAs and digitizer-based readout chains.

Quantifiable outcome

• Achieved sub-30ns risetimes with custom 4-1 SiPM preamplifier architecture for FAMU X-ray detection
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

18 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship, major and minor.

• CAENcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCAEN distributes Nuclear Instruments products including digitizers, high-voltage power supplies, and MCA systems through their established scientific instrumentation catalog and global distribution network. Products like DT5770, V2495, FERS-5200, DT5560SE are listed on the CAEN website with cross-references to Nuclear Instruments.
• GSSI - Gran Sasso Science InstituteflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the NUSES space mission, specifically for the LEM (Low Energy Module) particle spectrometer development. GSSI leads the scientific objectives while Nuclear Instruments designs the DAQ electronics, firmware, and system integration.
• INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing collaboration on particle detection projects including NUSES space mission, Pignoletto agricultural drone spectroscopy, and various high-energy physics experiments involving custom detector development.
• Thales Alenia SpacemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the NUSES satellite project for space-qualified electronics development and integration. Nuclear Instruments provides radiation-tolerant data concentrator systems and DAQ electronics for orbital instruments.
• Italian Space Agency (ASI)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the NUSES space mission consortium for development of space-based particle detection instruments including the LEM spectrometer and Zire calorimeter.
• INAF - Istituto Nazionale di AstrofisicaflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on the ASTRI Mini-Array Cherenkov telescope project, where Nuclear Instruments designed, tested, and manufactured custom camera electronics for the gamma-ray detection telescopes in Tenerife.
• European Spallation Source (ESS)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerNuclear Instruments provides approximately 30 R5560 digitizers with custom Sci-Compiler firmware as the readout system for the LoKI SANS (Small Angle Neutron Scattering) detector at ESS.
• UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on ISIS muon spectrometer upgrades including HiFi DAQ enhancement with DAQ121 digitizers and SuperMuSR project expanding to 600+ detector channels for next-generation muon spectroscopy.
• RIKEN-RAL (Japan)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNuclear Instruments developed custom front-end electronics for the FAMU experiment at RIKEN-RAL muon facility, including innovative 4-1 SiPM preamplifier architecture for LaBr3:Ce X-ray detectors.
• Universita di Milano BicoccacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on multiple projects including FAMU muonic hydrogen experiment, DIII-D tokamak compact spectrometer development, and academic research in particle detection and spectroscopy.
• AGE Scientific SRLminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in LEM detector development for charge-sensitive preamplifier design for silicon detectors, contributing specialized analog electronics expertise.
• Sòphia High Tech S.r.l.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the NUSES space mission consortium for LEM detector development, contributing to the low-energy particle spectrometer project.
• Gran Sasso TechminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the NUSES space mission for technology development and innovation in particle detection instrumentation.
• Universita di Trento - Dipartimento di FisicaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborating institution in the NUSES space mission consortium for particle physics research and detector development.
• Hamamatsu PhotonicscoreTechnology or IntegrationHamamatsu supplies SiPM sensors (S13360 series) used in Nuclear Instruments products including QMPD-2 detector heads and various custom detector designs for space and laboratory applications.
• CERNcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on particle detection and data acquisition projects. FERS-5200 readout system utilizes CERN's picoTDC for high-resolution time measurements with 3.125 ps resolution.
• ILL - Institut Laue-LangevincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNeutron science partnership for detector development and readout systems for neutron scattering experiments.
• Aermatica3DminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Pignoletto precision agriculture project for UAV sensor integration and flight testing of drone-mounted gamma-ray spectroscopy systems.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Direct peers

• CAEN S.p.A. Italian scientific instrumentation company headquartered near Pisa, offering digitizers, HV power supplies, MCAs, and detector readouts for nuclear and particle physics. Direct competitor with overlapping product lines and also Nuclear Instruments' distribution partner, making it the closest peer.
• Kromek Group plc: UK-based radiation detection company offering CdZnTe detectors, SiPM readouts, and gamma spectroscopy modules for medical imaging, security, and scientific research. Comparable in detector electronics and SiPM-based readouts for research customers.
• Bridgeport Instruments: US-based provider of digital pulse processing electronics and MCA modules for nuclear spectroscopy and radiation detection research. Comparable niche player offering digitizers and pulse processors to scientific customers.
• XIA LLC: Specialized manufacturer of digital signal processing hardware for nuclear physics, including digital MCA and pulse processing electronics for HPGe, Si(Li), and silicon drift detectors. Comparable niche scientific instrumentation peer.
• Amptek Inc. US-based manufacturer of compact X-ray and gamma-ray detectors, SiPM readouts, and digital pulse processors for scientific research and industrial applications. Comparable in offering SiPM-coupled detector electronics and digitizers to research and OEM customers.
• Ketek GmbH: German manufacturer of Silicon Drift Detectors (SDD) and custom detector electronics for X-ray spectroscopy and radiation detection. Comparable as a European specialty detector electronics peer serving scientific research.

Broad incumbents

• Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Global leader in photonics and SiPM sensors (including S13360 series used by Nuclear Instruments), offering detector modules and OEM components across medical, scientific, and industrial markets. Functions as both supplier and adjacent incumbent competitor.
• ORTEC (Ametek): Long-established manufacturer of radiation detection instrumentation (MCA, HPGe detectors, alpha spectroscopy) for nuclear physics, research, and security, now part of Ametek. Broad incumbent with overlapping digitizer and spectroscopy product lines.
• Advatech (acquired by Teledyne): Provider of radiation detection and scientific instrumentation now part of Teledyne, serving nuclear physics, homeland security, and research markets with digitizers and detector systems. Comparable broader incumbent in radiation detection instrumentation.
• Mirion Technologies (Canberra): Large established player in radiation detection and measurement, offering MCA, digitizers, HPGe detectors, and spectroscopy systems for nuclear, research, and security applications. Broader portfolio with overlapping scientific instrumentation lines.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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