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most citedFabrication of astronomical x-ray reflection gratings using thermally activated selective topography equilibration

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astro-ph.IM2020

REX: X-ray experiment on the Water Recovery Rocket

Martin Urban, Ondrej Nentvich, Tomas Baca +10

This paper presents Rocket Experiment (REX) that was part of a dual payload rocket campaign for NASA's sounding rocket Black Brant IX with water recovery technology. This mission w…

astro-ph.IM2020

Performance Testing of a Large-Format Reflection Grating Prototype for a Suborbital Rocket Payload

Benjamin D. Donovan, Randall L. McEntaffer, Casey T. DeRoo +8

The soft X-ray grating spectrometer on board the Off-plane Grating Rocket Experiment (OGRE) hopes to achieve the highest resolution soft X-ray spectrum of an astrophysical object w…

physics.app-ph20208 cited

X-ray verification of sol-gel resist shrinkage in substrate-conformal imprint lithography for a replicated blazed reflection grating

Jake A. McCoy, Marc A. Verschuuren, Drew M. Miles +1

Surface-relief gratings fabricated through nanoimprint lithography (NIL) are prone to topographic distortion induced by resist shrinkage. Characterizing the impact of this effect o…

astro-ph.IM2020

Limiting Spectral Resolution of a Reflection Grating Made via Electron-Beam Lithography

Casey T. DeRoo, Jared Termini, Fabien Grise +3

Gratings enable dispersive spectroscopy from the X-ray to the optical, and feature prominently in proposed flagships and SmallSats alike. The exacting performance requirements of t…

astro-ph.IM2020

Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Diffraction Efficiency of a Blazed Reflection Grating Fabricated by Thermally Activated Selective Topography Equilibration

Jake A. McCoy, Randall L. McEntaffer, Drew M. Miles

Future observatories utilizing reflection grating spectrometers for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray (SXR) spectroscopy require high-fidelity gratings with both blazed groo…