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Recently there has been much interest in the X-ray focusing properties of microchannel plates (MCPs). MCPs with both round and square pores have been shown to focus soft X-rays (Fraser et al. Nucl.Inst.Meth.A 324 (1993) 404 and Nucl.Inst.Meth.A 334 (1993) 579). In particular, images have been obtained from point sources positioned at the foci of round-pore MCP “X-ray lenses” for 0.28-17.4 keV X-rays. A Monte Carlo ray trace model has been developed which gives good agreement with experimental images.
In this paper we describe recent experimental progress in the development of MCPs for focusing hard X-rays (10-100 keV).
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Lees, J.E., Fraser, G.W., Brunton, A.N., Willingale, R. (1995). Hard X-Ray Imaging Using Microchannel Plate Optics. In: Bassani, L., Di Cocco, G. (eds) Imaging in High Energy Astronomy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0407-4_49
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