Development of a Schwarzschild type X-ray microscope.

First stage in the development of a soft-x-ray reflection imaging microscope in the Schwarzschild configuration using a soft-x-ray laser at 18.2 nm.

The main interest in developing a soft-x-ray reflection imaging microscope is its potential application to the high-resolution inspection of lithographic products and the observation of surfaces (or membranes) of biological cells. Significant efforts are being made in the United States and elsewhere to produce integrated circuits with a 0.25-,um feature size, which is resulting in an increased ...

Development of a hard x-ray imaging microscope

A hard x-ray imaging microscope based on a phase zone plate has been developed and tested. The zone plate, with a 5 cm focal length and a 0.2 pm smallest linewidth, was used to image 8 keV x rays from the samples. The imaging microscope can be used to obtain nearly diffraction-limited resolution over the entire imaging field, and its resolution is almost independent of source size and source mo...

A High-resolution X-ray Microscope

92 LLE Review, Volume 74 A soft x-ray microscope (E & 3 keV) with high spatial resolution (~3 μm) has been characterized at LLE and used for initial experiments on the OMEGA laser system to study the hydrodynamic stability of directly driven planar foils. The microscope, which is an optimized Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB)–type design, is used to obtain four x-ray radiographs of laser-driven foils. Time...

Contrast with a 3D X-ray Microscope

A Framed Monochromatic X-ray Microscope

Detector Crystal The Laser Fusion Experiments Groups from the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have jointly developed an instrument capable of simultaneously space-, time-, and spectrally resolving x-ray emission from inertial confinement fusion (ICF) targets. Uses of the instrument include framed imaging of line emission from fuel or shell dop...