Optical bench elements (Petals) for IXO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7437, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kampf, Dirk ^a   Erhard, Markus ^a   Bavdaz, Marcos ^b   Wallace, Kotska ^b   Gondoin, Philippe ^b   Collon, Maximilien J ^c  

^a OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c Cosine Research BV ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cesic ; IXO; Pore optics; SiC; Silicon; Stack; Wafer; X ray astronomy; X ray optics; X ray telescope

Indexed keywords

IXO; PORE OPTICS; SIC; STACK; WAFER; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY TELESCOPE;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; DESIGN; LAUNCHING; LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTODEGRADATION; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON CARBIDE; SILICON WAFERS; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 70449346256     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.826042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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