Coating optimization for the ATHENA+ mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8861, Issue , 2013, 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+; coating design; multilayers; ray tracing; Silicon Pore Optics; simulation of mirror performance; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

ATHENA; BI-LAYER COATINGS; COATING DESIGNS; COATING DEVELOPMENT; GRADED MULTILAYERS; MATERIAL COMBINATION; MIRROR PERFORMANCE; PORE OPTICS;

ASTROPHYSICS; GAMMA RAYS; MIRRORS; MULTILAYERS; OPTICS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIFICATIONS; X RAYS;

COATINGS;

EID: 84886807237     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2024471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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