Recent advances in ion-assisted growth of Cr/Sc multilayer X-ray mirrors for the water window

Cr/Sc multilayer X-ray mirrors intended for normal incidence reflection in the water window wavelength range, ?=[2.4-4.4nm], have been grown by ion-assisted sputter deposition and characterized usi ...

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