Improving the ruggedness of Silicon Pore Optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ackermann, Marcelo D ^a   Collon, Maximilien J ^a   Günther, Ramses ^a   Partapsing, Rakesh ^a   Bavdaz, Marcos ^b   Wallace, Kotska ^b   Wille, Eric ^b   Van Baren, Coen ^c   Kampf, Dirk ^d   Erhard, Markus ^d  

^a Cosine Research BV ^*  (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental testing; FEM; Pore optics; Ruggedisation; Silicon; X ray astronomy; X ray optics; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

FEM; PORE OPTICS; RUGGEDISATION; X RAY TELESCOPE; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING; FASTENERS; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; MOUNTINGS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957859227     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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