ATHENA optimized coating design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8443, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ferreira, Desiree D M ^a   Christensen, Finn E ^a   Jakobsen, Anders C ^a   Westergaard, Niels J ^a   Shortt, Brian ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ATHENA mission; Coating optimization; Multilayers; Ray Tracing; X rays

Indexed keywords

AREA-BASED; ATHENA MISSION; BI-LAYER; COATING DESIGNS; ENERGY RANGES; GRADED MULTILAYERS; MATERIAL COMBINATION; MIRROR DESIGN; MIRROR PERFORMANCE;

CURVE FITTING; GAMMA RAYS; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; OPTIMIZATION; SPACE TELESCOPES; X RAYS;

COATINGS;

EID: 84871756276     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.925694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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