The Beynon Gabor zone plate: a new tool for de Broglie matter waves and hard X-rays? An off axis and focus intensity investigation

High-efficiency nanofocusing of hard X-rays using stacked multilevel Fresnel zone plates with a smallest zone width of 200 nm is demonstrated. The approach is to approximate the ideal parabolic lens profile with two-, three-, four- and six-level zone plates. By stacking binary and three-level zone plates with an additional binary zone plate, the number of levels in the optical transmission function was doubled, resulting in four- and six-level profiles, respectively. Efficiencies up to 53.7% focusing were experimentally obtained with 6.5 keV photons using a compact alignment apparatus based on piezoelectric actuators. The measurements have also been compared with numerical simulations to study the misalignment of the two zone plates.

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Synchrotron Radiation Hard X-Ray Microprobe by Multilayer Fresnel Zone Plate

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-524-31 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 524 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

S. Tamura ◽

K. Ohtani ◽

M. Yasumoto ◽

K. Murali ◽

N. Kamuo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Synchrotron Radiation ◽

High Performance ◽

Fresnel Zone ◽

Deposition Process ◽

Spot Size ◽

Zone Plate ◽

Fresnel Zone Plate ◽

X Rays ◽

Sputtering Deposition ◽

X Ray

ABSTRACTA hard X-ray microbeam with submicrometer spot size from synchrotron radiation (SR) sources is expected to add a new dimension to various X-ray analysis methods. A Fresnel zone plate (FZP) is one of the promising focusing elements for X-rays. In order to develop high performance multilayer FZP for use in the hard X-ray region, Cu/Al concentric multilayers were fabricated by use of a DC sputtering deposition process. Lower Ar gas pressure or higher rotating speed of a wire substrate has been effective in forming smoother multilayer interfaces. From a focusing test of the Cu/Al FZP (100-zones) by the SR (λ= 0.154nm), microbeams of 1.5 μm φ and 0.8 μm φ have been achieved for the first- and third-order focal beams, respectively.

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Materials for Phase Zone Plate Fabrication for Use with Soft X-Rays

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics ◽

10.1143/jjap.27.1335 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 27 (Part 1, No. 7) ◽

pp. 1335-1337 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Hisao Fujisaki

Keyword(s):

Zone Plate ◽

X Rays ◽

Phase Zone

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Focusing Efficiency and Resolution of a Nickel Phase Zone Plate for Soft X-rays

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics ◽

10.1143/jjap.30.2943 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 30 (Part 1, No. 11A) ◽

pp. 2943-2946 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hisao Fujisaki ◽

Nobuyuki Nakagiri ◽

Hiroshi Kihara ◽

Norio Watanabe ◽

Mieko Taniguchi

Keyword(s):

Zone Plate ◽

X Rays ◽

Phase Zone

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Fabrication and evaluation of multilayer zone plate for hard X-rays.

Shinku ◽

10.3131/jvsj.32.429 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 32 (4) ◽

pp. 429-435

Author(s):

Kazuya SAITOH

Keyword(s):

Zone Plate ◽

X Rays

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Twentieth Century and Beyond

Drawing Physics ◽

10.7551/mitpress/9780262035903.003.0005 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Don S. Lemons

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

General Relativity ◽

Brownian Motion ◽

Atomic Nucleus ◽

Hydrogen Atom ◽

Early Universe ◽

Higgs Field ◽

Photoelectric Effect ◽

X Rays ◽

Matter Waves

During this period the diagrams that convey the ideas of physics become more symbolic and less representational. Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nucleus (1910), Niels Bohr’s model of the Hydrogen atom (1913), matter waves (1924), and the transition from an early universe with no Higgs field to a universe with a Higgs field (2012) are examples of this point. The photoelectric effect (1905), Brownian motion (1905), X-rays and crystals (1912), general relativity (1915), the expanding universe (1927-1929), and the global greenhouse effect (1988) remain accessible with a simple representational sketch.

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