Focusing high-energy x rays by compound refractive lenses

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 653-662

  Snigirev, A ^a   Kohn, V ^b   Snigireva, I ^a   Souvorov, A ^a   Lengeler, B ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0000112814     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000653     Document Type: Article

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