High-Precision Stress Measurement in Thin Films for X-Ray Mirrors

Future X-ray observatories aim to achieve sub-arcsecond angular resolution with unprecedented sensitivity. Silicon meta-shell optics technology will enable the X-ray astronomy instrumentation community to create such an observatory. The light-weighted silicon mirrors used in meta-shell optics have a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whalen, Mallory
Other Authors: Schattenburg, Mark L.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151815