Development of multilayer coatings (Ni/C - Pt/C) for hard X-ray telescopes by e-beam evaporation with ion assistance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5488, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 813-819

  Spiga, D ^a,b   Pareschi, G ^b   Citterio, O ^b   Banham, R ^c   Basso, S ^b   Cassanelli, M ^c   Cotroneo, V ^b   Negri, B ^d   Grisoni, G ^c   Valsecchi, G ^c   Vernani, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^c Media Lario Technologies   (Italy)

^d ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

E beam evaporation; Hard x ray mirrors; Multilayer coatings; Ni electroforming replication

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COATINGS; ION BEAM ASSISTED DEPOSITION; MIRRORS; NICKEL; REFLECTION; TELESCOPES;

E-BEAM EVAPORATION; HARD X-RAY MIRRORS; MULTILAYER COATINGS; NI ELECTROFORMING REPLICATION;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 10044296317     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.568751     Document Type: Conference Paper

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