New reflecting materials for the construction of hard X-ray focusing telescopes based on Bragg diffraction

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3113, Issue , 1997, Pages 275-284

  Pareschi, Giovanni ^a   Frontera, Filippo ^a   De Chiara, Paola ^a   Ferrara, Giuseppe ^a   Costa, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astronomical Instrumentation; Hard X rays; Mosaic crystals; Polymeric fibers; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; FOCUSING; GRAPHITE; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTONS; PLASTIC FILMS; X RAY OPTICS;

MOSAIC CRYSTALS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0031306346     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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