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A Comparison of the Performance of Gratings and Crystals in the 20-115 Å Region*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

James B. Nicholson
Affiliation:
Applied Research Laboratories, Inc. Hasler Research Center Goleta, California
David B. Wittry
Affiliation:
University of Southern California Los Angeles, California
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Abstract

Two aluminized gratings with different blaze angles, 1° and 7.55′, and a barium stearate monolayer crystal were compared for first-order X-ray line spectra from oxygen (23.707 Å) to beryllium (113 Å). The peak intensities for the gratings were found to be greater than for the monolayer crystal when the same detector, source, and excitation conditions were used. Line-to-background ratios and halfwidths were comparable.

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Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1963

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This work was done in the Development Division of Applied Research Laboratories, Inc., Glendale, California.

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