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Perovskite radiation detection

Perovskite semiconductors win a durable niche in radiation / X-ray / particle detection where their stopping power and low-cost solution processing beat incumbents.

  • Bear
  • Early
  • $2.7B by 2035

The callPhoton-counting is rebuilding the imaging detector, the moment a new material gets in, but perovskite stability is a lab result and Varex can port the layer once proven.

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  1. D1Medical imaging is moving to photon-counting, sharper CT at lower dose, and the detector is being rebuilt, which is when a new material is easiest to adopt.
  2. D2Cadmium telluride must be grown as single crystals slowly at low yield, while perovskite coats from solution at full panel size.
  3. R1The stability fixes, B-site doping in 2025 and a dark-current architecture in 2024, are lab results, not fielded panels.
  4. R2Varex, the natural adopter, is listed at about $0.78B and is the ceiling comp, and it can port the layer once proven.
  5. R3Medical clearance is 3-7 years from product freeze and the photon-counting host market is still small.
  6. C1The first CE-MDR mark or FDA 510(k) for an imaging detector with a perovskite layer, opening medical X-ray detectors to coated films.2031
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  1. 1A perovskite X-ray or gamma detector receives a CE mark or FDA clearance between 6 Nov 2026 and 31 Jan 2027.Jan 2027 · open
  2. 2A Cambridge perovskite detector spin-out showing its stability and panel-size claims hold; Actinia is the US comparison.Dec 2027 · open
  3. 3A perovskite detector panel reaches medical flat-panel size demonstrated by a named group or company by end-2028.Dec 2028 · open
  4. 4A uniform perovskite detector film at or near 43x43cm from a named group.Dec 2028 · open
  5. 5A perovskite X-ray (or gamma) detector reaches a CE-marked or FDA-cleared commercial product by end-2029.Dec 2029 · open
  6. 6A CE-marked or FDA-cleared perovskite X-ray or gamma detector.Dec 2029 · open
Expressionslisted, private, technologies
  • 6965.THamamatsu Photonics
    • full
     Scintillator plates, X-ray flat panels, photodetectors and CdTe/Si detector modules sold to medical, industrial and scientific instrument makers.
  • VREXVarex Imaging
    • not screened
     X-ray flat-panel detectors and CdTe photon-counting detectors (via Direct Conversion, bought 2019) sold to medical and industrial imaging OEMs; a Varian spin-off, so counted as an incumbent.
  • MIRMirion Technologies
    • not screened
     Semiconductor (HPGe, CZT) and scintillator radiation detectors and instruments sold to nuclear power, defence, medical and research users.
  • KMK.LKromek Group
    • not screened
Private · 2 private companies.

Actinia · KA Imaging

1 more private company tracked, not shown

Technologies
Who has already bet on itprivate rounds, from public sources

raised by 2 companies, $3M of it in the last three years. No disclosed funding: None of the mapped startups has a disclosed round.