Development status of a Laue lens for high energy X-rays (>60 keV)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5900, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Pisa, Alessandro ^a   Frontera, Filippo ^a,b   De Chiara, Paola ^a   Loffredo, Gianluca ^a   Pellicciotta, Damiano ^a   Carassiti, Vito ^c   Evangelisti, Federico ^c   Andersen, Ken ^d   Courtois, Pierre ^d   Hamelin, Bernard ^d   Amati, Lorenzo ^b   Landini, Gianni ^b   Franceschini, Turi ^b   Silvestri, Stefane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^d INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

Crystal diffraction; Hard X ray astronomy; Hard X ray optics

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; PHOTONS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; X RAY OPTICS;

CRYSTAL DIFFRACTION; HARD X-RAY ASTRONOMY; HARD X-RAY OPTICS;

LENSES;

EID: 29844449283     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.621116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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