Amsterdam Science park (2004)
NIKHEF is the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics in the Netherlands, in which the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM), the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA), the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU) and the Universiteit Utrecht (UU) collaborate. NIKHEF co-ordinates and supports all activities in experimental subatomic (high energy) physics in the Netherlands.
Among others, NIKHEF is actively involved in the Medipix2 collaboration at CERN. The goal of the collaboration is to transfer the technology, developed for semiconductor pixel detectors within High-Energy Physics, towards other applications such as Medical and Analytical X-ray imaging.
NIKHEF group is involved mainly in development of the read out interfaces for Medipix2 chip (Muros2) as well as in chip carrier boards design. Combination of these two topics is the RELAXD project - development of the large area fast detector system using Medipix2 chip.