Xenon, as well as other noble gases, has been employed in recent years as a
target for direct detection of dark matter. There are many benefits in Xe
detectors, among which its scintillation properties, radiation stopping
power, particle discrimination, spatial resolution and scalability.
In this talk I will describe the currently running experiment XENON100,
located in LNGS, Italy, show the results of a recent measurement of the
scintillation properties of Xe at low recoil energies, and describe the
current efforts towards the next generation dark matter detector, XENON1T.
