"Water window" compact, table-top laser plasma soft X-ray sources based on a gas puff target

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 268, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1692-1700

  Wachulak, P W ^a   Bartnik, A ^a   Fiedorowicz, H ^a   Rudawski, P ^a   Jarocki, R ^a   Kostecki, J ^a   Szczurek, M ^a  

^a MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

"Water window" sources; Gas puff target; Laser applications; Laser produced plasma; Soft X ray sources; Soft X rays

Indexed keywords

GAS PUFF TARGET; GAS PUFF TARGETS; SOFT X-RAY; SOFT X-RAY SOURCES; WATER WINDOW;

ARGON; DEBRIS; ELECTRON SOURCES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; GASES; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LASERS; PINHOLE CAMERAS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; PUMPING (LASER); SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUN; TARGETS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAY LITHOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 77951022736     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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