Silicon pore X-ray optics for IXO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Collon, Maximilien J ^a   Günther, Ramses ^a   Ackermann, Marcelo ^a   Partapsing, Rakesh ^a   Vacanti, Giuseppe ^b   Beijersbergen, Marco W ^a   Bavdaz, Marcos ^c   Wille, Eric ^c   Wallace, Kotska ^c   Olde Riekerink, Mark ^d   Lansdorp, Bob ^d   De Vrede, Lennart ^d   Van Baren, Coen ^e   Müller, Peter ^f   Krumrey, Michael ^f   Freyberg, Michael ^g  

^a Cosine Research BV ^*  (Netherlands)

^b Cosine Science and Computing BV ^*  (Netherlands)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^d Micronit Microfluidics   (Netherlands)

^e SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^g MPI F Extraterrestrische Physik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pore optics; Silicon; Stack; Wafer; X ray astronomy; X ray optics; X ray telescopes

Indexed keywords

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

ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; MIRRORS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTICAL TESTING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON WAFERS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; X RAY OPTICS; X RAYS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 77957866216     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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