The PILATUS 100K is targeted for surface diffraction and is in use since 2005 at the surface diffraction station of the material science beamline X04SA at the SLS. This detector is a major step forward in the instrumentation for this technique, has improved the quality of the measurements substantially and accelerated the acquisition of experimental data by a factor of ~50.
The SLS surface diffraction group (Phil Willmott et al.)  have been able to record CTRs and reflectivity curves with unsurpassed quality and speed.

DECTRIS would like to acknowledge the pioneering work which was done by the SLS surface diffraction group.

Manual and a library of matlab functions, which can be used to analyse surface diffraction data.

List of publications of SD work, based on the PILATUS 100K detector:

P.R. Willmott, C.M. Schlepuetz, B.D. Patterson, R. Herger, M. Lange, D. Meister, D. Maden, C. Broennimann, E.F. Eikenberry, G. Huelsen, and A. Al-Adwan In situ studies of complex PLD-grown films using hard X-ray surface diffraction, Appl. Surf. Sci. 247, 188 (2005)

C.M. Schlepuetz, R. Herger, P.R. Willmott, B.D. Patterson, O. Bunk, C. Broennimann, B. Henrich, G. Huelsen, and E.F. Eikenberry
Improved data acquisition in grazing-incidence X-ray scattering experiments using a pixel detector, Acta Crystall. A 61, 418 (2005)

P.R. Willmott, R. Herger, C.M. Schlepuetz, D. Martoccia, and B.D. Patterson
Energetic surface smoothing of complex metal-oxide thin films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 176102 (2006)

O. Bunk, M. Corso, D. Martoccia, R. Herger, P.R. Willmott, B.D. Patterson, J. Osterwalder, J.F. van der Veen, and T. Greber
Surface X-ray diffraction study of boron-nitride nanomesh in air, Surf. Sci. 601, L7 (2007)

R. Herger, P.R. Willmott, O. Bunk, C.M. Schlepuetz, B.D. Patterson, and B. Delley
Surface of strontium titanate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 076102 (2007)