Design, development and applications of etched multilayers for soft X-ray spectroscopy

作者:Le Guen Karine*; Benbalagh Rabah; Andre Jean Michel; Coudevylle Jean Rene; Jonnard Philippe
来源:The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics, 2017, 78(2): 20702.
DOI:10.1051/epjap/2017160287

摘要

An etched multilayer, a 2D structure fabricated by etching a periodic multilayer according to the pattern of a laminar grating, is applied in the soft X-ray range to improve the spectral resolution of wavelength dispersive spectrometers. The present article gathers all the successive stages of the development of such a device optimized to analyze the characteristic emission of light elements: design, structural and optical characterization and applications to X-ray spectroscopy. The evolution of the shape of the C K alpha emission band of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), as a function of the angle between the emission direction and the (0 0 0 1) planes, is measured. These results, compared to those with a grating, demonstrate that the achieved spectral resolution enables disentangling sigma -> 1s and pi -> 1s transitions within the C K emission band.

  • 出版日期2017-5