Optical properties of Laue lenses for hard X-rays (>60 keV)

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 20, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 219-228

  Pisa, Alessandro ^a   Frontera, Filippo ^a,b   Loffredo, Gianluca ^a   Pellicciotta, Damiano ^a   Auricchio, Natalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laue lens; X ray diffraction; X ray telescope

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751098501     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-006-9045-2     Document Type: Article

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