Xenocs, founded in 2000, is a private company spun-off of the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL). In 2002, Siparex Ventures , Xange (formerly ABN Amro Capital France) and Emertec participated in a funding round for a total amount of 3.5 M€. Xenocs is now a rapidly expanding completely autonomous company. The company is specialised in the design and production of X-ray multilayer optical components.

Xenocs core competencies lie in depth graded and laterally graded d-spacing multilayer-coatings, optical design, and preparation of low-roughness aspherical shaped substrates. Xenocs has applied these technologies in order to produce a variety of different optical components for a wide range of analytical applications.

Xenocs has experience with a large number of coating materials including W, Ni, Mo, Si, C and alloys containing these materials. Xenocs applies coatings to a variety of different substrates including float glass, thin drawn glass, polished silicon, fused silica, zerodur and polished nickel surfaces.

Xenocs has installed single reflection 2D multilayer X-ray mirrors on many home lab crystallography installations as part of upgrade programs to renown academic and private institutions such as The Scripps Research Institute, the EMBL or Sanofi Aventis. Major OEMs in various fields have also placed their confidence in Xenocs products after careful evaluation of other solutions available on the market.

As an innovative company Xenocs participates in national and international multi-annual R&D projects related to the semiconductor industry and to X-ray analytical instrumentation in general.

In a testament to the technological and entrepreneurial prowess of Xenocs, the French Minister of Research and Industry twice awarded Xenocs the Award for Innovation, once in 1999 in the “emerging project “category, and once in 2000 in the “creation and development” category.