Applications of a Compact "Water Window" Source for Investigations of Nanostructures Using SXR Microscope

• Authors: A. Torrisi , P. Wachulak , M. Fahad Nawaz , A. Bartnik , D. Adjei , Š. Vondrová , J. Turňová , A. Jančarek , H. Fiedorowicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

A compact soft X-ray microscope based on a nitrogen double-stream gas puff target soft X-ray source, operating at He-like nitrogen spectral line at the wavelength of λ =2.88 nm is presented. The desk-top size microscope was successfully demonstrated in transmission mode using the Fresnel zone-plate objective and it is suitable for soft X-ray source microscopy in the "water window" spectral range (λ = 2.3÷ 4.4 nm). Details about the soft X-ray source source, the microscope and an example of application in the biomedical field are shown and discussed.

Keywords

EN

52.38.-r; 42.30.-d; 42.62.-b; 87.59.-e; 68.37.Yz; 07.85.Tt; 41.50.+h; 42.79.Dj

Discipline

• 42.62.-b: Laser applications
• 68.37.Yz: X-ray microscopy
• 07.85.Tt: X-ray microscopes
• 42.79.Dj: Gratings(for holographic gratings, see 42.40.Eq)
• 87.59.-e: X-ray imaging
• 52.38.-r: Laser-plasma interactions(for plasma production and heating by laser beams, see 52.50.Jm)
• 41.50.+h: X-ray beams and x-ray optics(see also 07.85.Fv X- and γ-ray sources, mirrors, gratings, and detectors in instruments)
• 42.30.-d: Imaging and optical processing

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 129
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 169-171

Dates

published

2016-02

Contributors

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A. Torrisi

• Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

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P. Wachulak

• Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

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M. Fahad Nawaz

• Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic

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A. Bartnik

• Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

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D. Adjei

• Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

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Š. Vondrová

• Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic

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J. Turňová

• Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic

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A. Jančarek

• Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Brehova 7, 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic

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H. Fiedorowicz

• Institute of Optoelectronics, Military University of Technology, S. Kaliskiego 2, 00-908 Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.129.169