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X-ray diffractive optics
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Dennis, Brian Li, Mary Skinner, Gerald |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | X-ray optics were fabricated with the capability of imaging solar x-ray sources with better than 0.1 arcsecond angular resolution, over an order of magnitude finer than is currently possible. Such images would provide a new window into the little-understood energy release and particle acceleration regions in solar flares. They constitute one of the most promising ways to probe these regions in the solar atmosphere with the sensitivity and angular resolution needed to better understand the physical processes involved. A circular slit structure with widths as fine as 0.85 micron etched in a silicon wafer 8 microns thick forms a phase zone plate version of a Fresnel lens capable of focusing approx. =.6 keV x-rays. The focal length of the 3-cm diameter lenses is 100 microns, and the angular resolution capability is better than 0.1 arcsecond. Such phase zone plates were fabricated in Goddard fs Detector Development Lab. (DDL) and tested at the Goddard 600-microns x-ray test facility. The test data verified that the desired angular resolution and throughput efficiency were achieved. |
| File Size | 65022 |
| Page Count | 1 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20130014127 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3b045333 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-07-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Man/system Technology And Life Support Fabrication Test Facilities Fresnel Lenses Solar X-rays X Rays Angular Resolution Diffractive Optics Imaging Techniques Particle Acceleration X Ray Optics X Ray Sources 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 |