What is it about?
Efficient utilization of new types of X-ray laboratory sources requires dedicated solutions of the X-ray optics for a targeted X-ray beam conditioning while collecting maximum intensity from the source and bringing it onto the sample. In particular, new schemes of the X-ray beam compression and expansion for X-ray metrology and X-ray imaging are addressed.
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Why is it important?
The proposed solutions of X-ray optics outperform commercial setups and may allow to perform or pre-screen in laboratory the X-ray experiments that have been confined to synchrotron, such as real-time monitoring of processes at the nanoscale.
Perspectives
Elaboration of efficient routines for a tailored theoretical design of multi-element optics for X-ray beam compression/expansion will be necessary. Further development of the technology of single-point diamond turning to realize these elements at the required quality is needed as well. We are working in both directions.
Dr. Matej Jergel
Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Towards high-flux X-ray beam compressing channel-cut monochromators, Journal of Applied Crystallography, October 2016, International Union of Crystallography,
DOI: 10.1107/s1600576716013376.
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