11 nm hard X-ray focus from a large-aperture multilayer Laue lens

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Xiaojing ^a   Yan, Hanfei ^a   Nazaretski, Evgeny ^a   Conley, Raymond ^a,b   Bouet, Nathalie ^a   Zhou, Juan ^a   Lauer, Kenneth ^a   Li, Li ^a   Eom, Daejin ^a,e   Legnini, Daniel ^b   Harder, Ross ^b   Robinson, Ian K ^c,d   Chu, Yong S ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Research Complex   (United Kingdom)

^e Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

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EID: 84890951413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03562     Document Type: Article

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