High-efficiency x-ray gratings with asymmetric-cut multilayers

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 216-230

  Bajt, Saša ^a   Chapman, Henry N ^a,b   Aquila, Andrew ^a,d   Gullikson, Eric ^c  

^a DESY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; DISPERSION (WAVES); EFFICIENCY; MAGNETRONS; X RAYS;

ANGULAR DISPERSIONS; BI-LAYER; BLAZED GRATING; DIFFRACTED WAVES; DYNAMICAL DIFFRACTION THEORY; EXTREME ULTRAVIOLETS; FIRST-ORDER; GRATING EQUATIONS; LAYER DEPOSITION; LINE DENSITY; MULTI-LAYER MIRRORS; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; MULTILAYER LAUE LENS; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; ROCKING CURVES; X-RAY GRATINGS; X-RAY WAVELENGTHS;

MULTILAYERS;

EID: 84857858593     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.29.000216     Document Type: Article

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