Multilayer coating facility for the HEFT hard X-ray telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4496, Issue , 2002, Pages 104-108

  Jensen, Carsten P ^a   Christensen, Finn E ^a   Chen, Hubert ^b   Smitt, Erik B W ^a   Ziegler, Eric ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

Hard X ray telescope; Multilayer

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAGNETRONS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL COATINGS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; VACUUM; X RAY OPTICS;

HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE; HIGH ENERGY FOCUSING TELESCOPE; MULTILAYER COATING FACILITY;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036395001     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454368     Document Type: Article

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