Sub-10 nm beam confinement by X-ray waveguides: design, fabrication and characterization of optical properties

Optimized X-ray waveguides have been fabricated and characterized in terms of transmission, angular acceptance, farfield pattern and imaging applications. Beam confinement down to sub-10 nm in two orthogonal directions has been demonstrated, at the nano-focus endstation at P10 of PETRA III at HASYLAB/DESY.

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