Diamond X-ray Refractive Lenses with High Acceptance ☆
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In this article, a review of diamond refractive lenses with high acceptance for transportation of radiation at high-power X-ray accelerator sources is presented, considering ways to improve the quality of surface and shape.About:
This article is published in Physics Procedia.The article was published on 2016-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 29 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gradient-index optics & Diamond.read more
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Precision micro-mechanical components in single crystal diamond by deep reactive ion etching.
TL;DR: A team led by Niels Quack at EPFL in Switzerland report a deep reactive ion etching process that utilizes a three-layer Al/SiO2 hard mask that yields etch rates >30 µm/h and precise dimensional control of features and paves the way toward high-volume precise fabrication of diamond components.
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Magnetic imaging with polarized soft x-rays
TL;DR: Magnetic imaging with polarized soft x-rays offers several advantages compared to other techniques, which are available to visualize magnetic structures and magnetic behavior on microscopic levels, such as magnetic spin and orbital moments as mentioned in this paper.
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Diamond refractive micro-lenses for full-field X-ray imaging and microscopy produced with ion beam lithography.
Polina Medvedskaya,Ivan Lyatun,Sergey Shevyrtalov,Maxim Polikarpov,Irina Snigireva,V. Yunkin,Anatoly Snigirev +6 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that ion-beam lithography can be applied to the fabrication of rotationally parabolic refractive diamond X-ray micro-lenses that are of interest to the field of high-resolution X-rays focusing and microscopy.
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Trapezoidal Diffraction Grating Beam Splitters in Single Crystal Diamond
TL;DR: In this paper, a symmetric trapezoidal profile was etched into a single crystal diamond substrate, where the optimized grating geometry diffracted the transmitted optical power into precisely defined proportions, performing as an effective beam splitter.
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Reactive ion etching of single crystal diamond by inductively coupled plasma: State of the art and catalog of recipes
Adrien Toros,Marcell Kiss,Teodoro Graziosi,Sichen Mi,R. Berrazouane,Mehdi Naamoun,J. Vukajlovic,Pascal Gallo,Niels Quack +8 more
TL;DR: A review of the state-of-the-art reactive ion etching (RIE) techniques for single crystal diamond (SCD) can be found in this paper, where a broad range of RIE recipes have been demonstrated using a variety of masking materials, chemistries, etch rates and selectivities.
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A compound refractive lens for focusing high-energy X-rays
TL;DR: In this article, a simple procedure for fabricating refractive lenses that are effective for focusing of X-rays in the energy range 5-40 keV is described, and the problem associated with absorption is minimized by fabricating the lenses from low-atomic-weight materials.
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Demonstration of self-seeding in a hard-X-ray free-electron laser
J. Amann,William Berg,Vladimir Blank,F.-J. Decker,Y. Ding,P. Emma,Yiping Feng,J. Frisch,David Fritz,Jerome B. Hastings,Zhirong Huang,Jacek Krzywinski,Ryan Lindberg,H. Loos,Alberto Lutman,Heinz-Dieter Nuhn,Daniel Ratner,J. Rzepiela,Deming Shu,Yu. V. Shvyd'ko,Simone Spampinati,Stanislav Stoupin,Sergey Terentyev,Emil Trakhtenberg,D.R. Walz,J. Welch,Jihuai Wu,Alexander Zholents,Diling Zhu +28 more
TL;DR: In this article, the first half of the magnetic undulator was used to seed the second half via a diamond-based monochromator at angstrom wavelengths, which is a technique similar to ours.
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A planar refractive x-ray lens made of nanocrystalline diamond
L. Alianelli,Kawal Sawhney,A. Malik,O J L Fox,Paul W May,Robert Stevens,I. M. Loader,M. C. Wilson +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine modern silicon microtechnology with advanced deposition methods to fabricate nanocrystalline-diamond lenses for third and fourth-generation synchrotron sources.
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Imaging by parabolic refractive lenses in the hard X-ray range
Bruno Lengeler,Christian G. Schroer,J. Tümmler,Boris Benner,M. Richwin,Anatoly Snigirev,Irina Snigireva,Michael Drakopoulos +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the manufacture and properties of compound refractive lenses (CRLs) for hard X-rays with parabolic profile are described and a theory for imaging an X-ray source and an object illuminated by it has been developed, including the effects of attenuation (photoabsorption and Compton scattering) and of the roughness at the lens surface.
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A microscope for hard x rays based on parabolic compound refractive lenses
Bruno Lengeler,Christian G. Schroer,M. Richwin,J. Tümmler,Michael Drakopoulos,Anatoly Snigirev,Irina Snigireva +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, refractive x-ray lenses with a parabolic profile are described, similar to glass lenses for visible light, which can operate in the range from 2 to 50 degrees of freedom, allowing for magnifications up to 50.