Ellipsoidal and parabolic glass capillaries as condensers for x-ray microscopes

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2376-2381

  Zeng, Xianghui ^a   Duewer, Fred ^a   Feser, Michael ^a   Huang, Carson ^a   Lyon, Alan ^a   Tkachuk, Andrei ^a   Yun, Wenbing ^a  

^a XRADIA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; ELECTRON EMISSION; GLASS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GLASS CAPILLARIES; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HOLLOW CONES; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SLOPE ERRORS; SUB-50 NM; X-RAY ENERGIES; ZONE PLATES;

X RAY MICROSCOPES;

GLASS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLASS; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 47249083006     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002376     Document Type: Article

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