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Title: 6000 lines/mm blazed grating for a high-resolution x-ray spectrometer

Abstract

We have designed and fabricated a high groove density blazed grating for a Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering spectrometer for the new Qerlin beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron facility. The gratings were fabricated using a set of nanofabrication techniques including e-beam lithography, nanoimprint, plasma etch, and anisotropic wet etching. Two gratings with groove density of 6000 lines/mm and 3000 lines/mm and optimized for operation in the 1st and 2nd negative diffraction order respectively were fabricated and tested. We report on fabrication details and characterization of the gratings at beamline 6.3.2 of the ALS.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1872426
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1925198
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Optics Express
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 30; Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher:
Optical Society of America (OSA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; x-ray optics; x-ray diffraction gratings; nanofabrication; diffraction efficiency; x-ray spectrometer

Citation Formats

Voronov, D. L., Park, S., Gullikson, E. M., Salmassi, F., and Padmore, H. A. 6000 lines/mm blazed grating for a high-resolution x-ray spectrometer. United States: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1364/oe.460740.
Voronov, D. L., Park, S., Gullikson, E. M., Salmassi, F., & Padmore, H. A. 6000 lines/mm blazed grating for a high-resolution x-ray spectrometer. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.460740
Voronov, D. L., Park, S., Gullikson, E. M., Salmassi, F., and Padmore, H. A. Thu . "6000 lines/mm blazed grating for a high-resolution x-ray spectrometer". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.460740. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1872426.
@article{osti_1872426,
title = {6000 lines/mm blazed grating for a high-resolution x-ray spectrometer},
author = {Voronov, D. L. and Park, S. and Gullikson, E. M. and Salmassi, F. and Padmore, H. A.},
abstractNote = {We have designed and fabricated a high groove density blazed grating for a Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering spectrometer for the new Qerlin beamline at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) synchrotron facility. The gratings were fabricated using a set of nanofabrication techniques including e-beam lithography, nanoimprint, plasma etch, and anisotropic wet etching. Two gratings with groove density of 6000 lines/mm and 3000 lines/mm and optimized for operation in the 1st and 2nd negative diffraction order respectively were fabricated and tested. We report on fabrication details and characterization of the gratings at beamline 6.3.2 of the ALS.},
doi = {10.1364/oe.460740},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 16,
volume = 30,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Thu Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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