Nanotomography using parabolic refractive x-ray lenses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5535, Issue , 2004, Pages 701-708

  Schroer, C G ^a,b   Benner, B ^a   Gunzler T F ^a   Kuhlmann, M ^a   Patommel, J ^a   Lengeler, B ^a   Somogyi, A ^c   Weitkamp, T ^d   Rau, C ^c   Snigirev, A ^c   Snigireva, I ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DESY   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^d PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Full field microscopy; Magnified X ray imaging; Refractive x ray lenses; Tomography

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIATION DETECTORS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY MICROSCOPES; X RAYS;

FULL FIELD MICROSCOPY; MAGNIFIED X-RAY IMAGING; NANOTOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE X-RAY LENSES;

LENSES;

EID: 20144364903     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.559643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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