title: Characterization of germanium linear kinoform lenses at Diamond Light Source.
abstract: The unprecedented brilliance achieved by third-generation synchrotron sources and the availability of improved optics have opened up new opportunities for the study of materials at the micrometre and nanometre scale. Focusing the synchrotron radiation to smaller and smaller beams is having a huge impact on a wide research area at synchrotrons. The key to the exploitation of the improved sources is the development of novel optics that deliver narrow beams without loss of brilliance and coherence. Several types of synchrotron focusing optics are successfully fabricated using advanced miniaturization techniques. Kinoform refractive lenses are being developed for hard X-ray beamlines, and the first test results at Diamond are discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Diamond Light Source Ltd, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK. lucia.alianelli@diamond.ac.uk
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Alianelli
authors.forename: K J S
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Sawhney
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Tiwari
authors.forename: I P
authors.initials: IP
authors.lastname: Dolbnya
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.forename: D W K
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Loader
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malik
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D018130:Diamond; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005857:Germanium; D007909:Lenses; D016014:Linear Models; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D017356:Synchrotrons / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D005857:Germanium; D018130:Diamond