Capped Mo/Si multilayers with improved performance at 30.4 nm for future solar missions

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 13963-13973

  Corso, Alain Jody ^a,b   Zuppella, Paola ^a,b   Nicolosi, Piergiorgio ^a,b   Windt, David L ^c   Gullikson, E ^d   Pelizzo, Maria Guglielmina ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Reflective X ray Optics LLC   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; REFLECTION;

CAPPING LAYER; MO/SI MULTILAYER; MULTI-ELEMENT; SOLAR ORBITERS; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 79958209974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013963     Document Type: Article

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