Founded in 1945 by Gilbert Tomes and Alec Tidmarsh, Centronic, or Centurion Tubes as it was then known, started life in the back bedroom of Gilbert Tomes' house in Kent, England.
Read more...Centronic’s expertise covers all aspects of production, complete in-house design & manufacturing, machining and environmental testing to final test/inspection, thereby maintaining complete control of all operation sequences.
Read more...Centronic has decades of experience of supplying the biggest names in our chosen industries.
Read more...Centronic Limited has been supplying to the Nuclear Industry since the 1950s. As the first company worldwide to supply radiation detectors to nuclear reactors for commercial electricity generation, Centronic is still a trusted supplier to some of the...
Read more...As a provider of Silicon photodiodes for cockpit display lighting control and communication systems, Centronic has significant experience of supplying the Aerospace industry, and meeting its exacting quality requirements. We also supply electromagnet...
Read more...Centronic Limited has supplied silicon photodiode products to some of the biggest defence companies in the world. Our products have been used in Laser Ranger and Marked Target Seeker projects, weapon simulator systems, and cockpit and display lightin...
Read more...Centronic has close relationships with many research facilities worldwide, and provides detectors for measurement and environmental control for research establishments studying materials utilising particle physics, synchrotron, fusion and fission tec...
Read more...Centronic supplies detectors worldwide for Instrumentation covering diverse applications including spectrometry, non-destructive testing, particle analysis and characterisation, metrology, high temperature measurements, colour and pattern recognition...
Read more...Centronic has worked on projects for many key customers in the space industry, providing silicon photodiodes for sun acquisition sensors for launch vehicles for various space exploration projects. We have also supplied detectors for imaging systems f...
Read more...Centronic is a key supplier of Geiger Muller tubes for intrinsically safe personnel and area dosimeters, nuclear density gauges for oil separation, well logging and fluid level measurement instrumentation.
Read more...Centronic detectors are used widely in medical applications, for applications such as x-ray monitoring (CT systems), blood glucose and haemoglobin monitoring, radiological imaging, H&S and environmental and waste management.
Read more...Centronic will be attending and exhibiting in the International Nuclear Manufacturing Summit 2022 at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham on November the 16th and 17th.
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Read more...Based in Croydon, London UK, Centronic is a well-established engineering and manufacturing business. Serving a range of exciting and demanding industries, and working closely with some of the largest companies in the world, we are always keen to hear...
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Read more...High speed IR (series 3T)
Bias: 60V
Response: 400-1100nm
Responsivity (900nm): 0.61 A/W
Technology: pn fully depleted
1064nm pulsed (series 4X)
Bias: 150V
Response: 400-1100nm
Responsivity (1064nm): 0.4 A/W
Technology: pin fully depleted
High speed (BPX65)
Bias: 20V
Response: 400-1064nm
Responsivity (900nm): 0.55 A/W
Risetime: 3.5 ns
Technology: pn junction
Ultra high speed (AEPX)
Bias: 5V
Response: 450-1064nm
Responsivity (820nm) 0.35 A/W
Risetime: 0.3 to 0.6 ns
Technology: epitaxial
3T series photodetectors are specifically designed for high speed, infra-red laser pulse detection. The detector structure designed to be fully depleted at 60 volts reverse bias, uses high resistivity silicon to achieve very low capacitance. The detectors offer high responsivity in the 800-1000 nm range but are equally suited to high speed application at longer wavelengths where maximum absolute responsivity is not as important as speed of response.
The 4X series of photodetectors are designed specifically for sensing high speed 1064 nm Nd YAG laser pulses. The detector structure is designed to be fully depleted at 150 volts reverse bias and offers high pulsed and DC responsivity at wavelengths up to 1100 nm coupled with an extremely low capacitance per unit area.
The BPX65 family of detectors feature Centronic’s 1mm2 high speed, high sensitivity chip already successful in a wide variety of applications. The chip can be packaged in various forms suitable for fibre-optic communication, such as the AX65-RF (precisely centred, isolated, low chip to window spacing) a standard 2 or 3 lead TO18 or even epoxy encapsulated. It has also been used for encoder designs and with MIL SPEC release at the heart of advanced laser warning systems.
The AEPX Series of photodiodes is offered in a range of small active area sizes suitable for high frequency fibre optic applications. These photodetectors take advantage of an epitaxial structure to achieve good high frequency response at operating voltages as low as 5 volts. The detectors may also be operated at higher bias levels up to 20 volts to achieve extremely fast pulsed response.