A commercial graphite sheet to diffract and polarize X-rays

Fabio Muleri; Leonardo Barbini; Enrico Costa; Sergio Fabiani; Daniele Michilli; Paolo Soffitta

doi:10.1117/12.925395

17 September 2012 A commercial graphite sheet to diffract and polarize X-rays

Fabio Muleri, Leonardo Barbini, Enrico Costa, Sergio Fabiani, Daniele Michilli, Paolo Soffitta

Proceedings Volume 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 84434M (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925395
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

Pyrolytic Graphite Sheets (PGSs) are produced as convenient thermal interfaces because the highly oriented structure allows for an excellent thermal conductivity. Here we report on the fact that this material can also diffract X-rays. We succeeded in diffracting 5.9 keV and continuum photons on a 25 μm thick PGS, verifying that the lattice spacing is 3.35 Å as expected. The low cost, lightness and the possibility to curve such thin sheets allow to think at new applications in X-ray astronomy.

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Fabio Muleri, Leonardo Barbini, Enrico Costa, Sergio Fabiani, Daniele Michilli, and Paolo Soffitta "A commercial graphite sheet to diffract and polarize X-rays", Proc. SPIE 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 84434M (17 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925395

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