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Replicate wolter-i x-ray mirrors
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Rood, R. Fawcett, S. Engelhaupt, D. E. Griffith, C. Khanijow, R. |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | Cylindrical (hyperbolic - parabolic Wolter I) mirrors have been electroformed from nickel over an electroless nickel-phosphorous (NiP) plated aluminum mandrel in support of the NASA AXAF-S x-ray spectrometer program. The electroless nickel was diamond turned and polished to achieve a surface finish of 10 angstroms rms or better. Gold was then plated on the nickel alloy after an electrochemical passivation step. Next a heavy layer of pure nickel was plated one millimeter thick with controlled stress at zero using a commercial PID program to form the actual mirror. This shell was removed from the NiP alloy coated mandrel by cryogenic cooling and contraction of the aluminum to release the mirror. It is required that the gold not adhere well to the NiP but all other plated coatings must exhibit good adherence. Four mirrors were fabricated from two mandrels prepared by this method. The area of each part is 0.7 square meters (7.5 square feet). |
| File Size | 2275822 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19960003153 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t0ps2q99r |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Optics Nickel Alloys Electroforming Aluminum X Ray Spectroscopy Mandrels Cryogenic Cooling Electroless Deposition Coatings Surface Finishing Fabrication Paraboloid Mirrors Millimeter Waves X Ray Astrophysics Facility Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |