NANOMETER SPATIAL-RESOLUTION ACHIEVED IN HARD X-RAY-IMAGING AND LAUE DIFFRACTION EXPERIMENTS

被引:191
作者
BILDERBACK, DH [1 ]
HOFFMAN, SA [1 ]
THIEL, DJ [1 ]
机构
[1] CORNELL UNIV,SCH APPL & ENGN PHYS,ITHACA,NY 14853
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10.1126/science.8284671
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Tapered glass capillaries have successfully condensed hard x-ray beams to ultrasmall dimensions providing unprecedented spatial resolution for the characterization of materials. A spatial resolution of 50 nanometers was obtained while imaging a lithographically prepared gold pattern with x-rays in the energy range of 5 to 8 kiloelectron volts. This is the highest resolution scanning x-ray image made to date with hard x-rays. With a beam 360 nanometers in diameter, Laue diffraction was observed from the smallest sample volume ever probed by x-ray diffraction, 5 x 10(-3) cubic micrometers.
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