Sub-5 nm hard x-ray point focusing by a combined Kirkpatrick-Baez mirror and multilayer zone plate

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 19311-19323

  Doring F ^a   Robisch, A L ^a   Eberl, C ^a   Osterhoff, M ^a   Ruhlandt, A ^a   Liese, T ^a   Schlenkrich, F ^a   Hoffmann, S ^a   Bartels, M ^a   Salditt, T ^a   Krebs, H U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; LENSES; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; X RAYS;

FABRICATION CONSTRAINTS; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; FOCAL LENGTHS; HIGH RESOLUTION; KIRKPATRICK-BAEZ MIRROR; LENS SYSTEMS; STRUCTURE WIDTH; W/SI MULTILAYERS;

FOCUSING;

EID: 84881528163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.019311     Document Type: Article

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