Replication by Ni electroforming approach to produce the Con-X/HXT hard X-ray mirrors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4851, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 528-537

  Pareschi, G ^a   Citterio, O ^a   Ghigo, M ^a   Mazzoleni, F ^a   Gorenstein, P ^b   Romaine, S ^b   Parodi, G ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c BCV Progetti   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hard X ray telescopes; Ni electroforming replication; X ray astronomical instrumentation; X ray multilayer mirrors

Indexed keywords

ELECTROFORMING; MIRRORS; NICKEL; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SOFT X-RAY TELESCOPE (SXT);

X RAY OPTICS;

EID: 0038294748     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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