Conference paper
SPO mirror plate production and coating
Cosine Measurement Systems1
Media Lario S.r.l.2
Teledyne e2v Limited3
ESTEC4
Micronit Microfluidics5
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research6
University of Amsterdam7
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt8
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics9
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark10
Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark11
...and 1 moreThe Silicon Pore Optics (SPO) technology has been established as a new type of X-ray optics and will enable future X-ray observatories such as Athena and Arcus. SPO is being developed at cosine Research B.V. together with the European Space Agency (ESA) and academic as well as industrial partners. For Athena, about 150,000 mirror plates are required.
With the technology spin-in from the semiconductor industry, mass production processes can be employed to manufacture rectangular SPO mirror plates in high quality, large quantity and at low cost. Over the last years, several aspects of the SPO mirror plates have been reviewed and undergone further developments in terms of effective area, intrinsic behavior of the mirror plates and mass production capability.
The paper will provide an overview of most recent SPO plate designs, mirror plate production status and plan forward including reflective coating process as well as mass production developments.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering |
Year: | 2021 |
Pages: | 1182207-1182207-11 |
Proceedings: | SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications 2021 |
Series: | Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering |
Journal subtitle: | Optics for Euv, X-ray, and Gamma-ray Astronomy X |
ISBN: | 1510644822 , 1510644830 , 9781510644823 and 9781510644830 |
ISSN: | 1996756x and 0277786x |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1117/12.2594234 |
ORCIDs: | Massahi, Sonny , Svendsen, Sara , Ferreira, Desirée Della Monica and Christensen, Finn E. |