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Experimental Dispersing Devices and Detection Systems for Soft X-Rays

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

David W. Fischer  and
William L. Baun
David W. Fischer
Affiliation:
Aeronautical Systems Division Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
William L. Baun
Affiliation:
Aeronautical Systems Division Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
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Abstract

Instrumentation for soft X-ray research is briefly described. Preliminary results are shown for several dispersing systems which have been found useful in the 10 to 60 Å region. Results from single crystals of Group 1A salts of phthalic acid are discussed and intensity measurements are reported. Other organic single crystals, such as long-chain derivatives of adipic acid are evaluated, along with films of organic compounds prepared by the Blodgètt-Langmuir technique. The efficiencies of the dispersing elements mentioned above are compared with commercial crystals such as mica, gypsum, ADP, and EDDT. Performance of detectors for soft X-rays is shown for fiow-proportional and Geiger counters, a solid state silicon barrier detector, and a windowless resistance strip magnetic electron multiplier. The relative efficiencies of several photocathode materials for the latter are discussed. The design for a scintillation counter sensitive over a wide energy range is discussed and preliminary results using the counter in the region 1-15 Å are shown.

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Research Article
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 7: Twelfth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 7-9, 1963 , 1963 , pp. 489 - 496
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1963

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