Kirkpatrick-Baez mirror

A Kirkpatrick-Baez mirror, or KB mirror for short, focuses beams of X-rays by reflecting them at grazing incidence off a curved surface, usually coated with a layer of a heavy metal. ^[1]

6 relations: Albert Baez, Compound refractive lens, Paul H. Kirkpatrick, X-ray, X-ray microscope, X-ray optics.

Albert Baez

Albert Vinicio Báez (November 15, 1912 – March 20, 2007) was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña.

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Compound refractive lens

A Compound refractive lens (CRL) is a series of individual lenses arranged in a linear array in order to achieve focusing of X-rays in the energy range of 5-40 keV.

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Paul H. Kirkpatrick (July 21, 1894 - December 26, 1992) was co-inventor of the X-ray reflection microscope, and the imaging technique he and his graduate student Albert Baez developed is still used, particularly in astronomy to take X-ray pictures of galaxies and in medicine.

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X-ray

X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.

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X-ray microscope

An X-ray microscope uses electromagnetic radiation in the soft X-ray band to produce magnified images of objects.

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X-ray optics

X-ray optics is the branch of optics that manipulates X-rays instead of visible light.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkpatrick-Baez_mirror

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