Influence of a carbon over-coat on the X-ray reflectance of XEUS mirrors

Details Influence of a carbon over-coat on the X-ray reflectance of XEUS mirrors Influence of a carbon over-coat on the X-ray reflectance of XEUS mirrors

2007-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/0707.2490v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 5 separate figures Accepted Optics Communications

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.optcom.2007.06.049

We describe measurements of the X-ray reflectance in the range 2 to 10 keV of samples representative of coated silicon wafers that are proposed for the fabrication of the XEUS (X-ray Evolving Universe Spectrometer) mission. We compare the reflectance of silicon samples coated with bare Pt, with that for samples with an additional 10nm thick carbon over-coating. We demonstrate a significant improvement in reflectance in the energy range ~1 to 4 keV, and at a grazing incidence angle of 10 mrad (0.57 degrees). We consider the resulting effective area that could be attained with an optimized design of the XEUS telescope. Typically an improvement of 10 to 60 % in effective area, depending on photon energy, can be achieved using the carbon overcoat.

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