Abstract
Thick, free-standing, gold Fresnel zone plates were fabricated and tested for use as coded apertures for imaging 100 keV x-rays and 6 MeV and 10 MeV protons. Reactive Ion Etching and gold microplating techniques were extended to "thick" structures, to fabricate gold zone plates 75 um thick, with 30 um minimum zone width. Techniques were developed for using high efficiency, high resolution nuclear track detectors to record protons and produce suitable contrast shadowgraphs from the etched nuclear track detectors. The point response function of the zone plate shadow camera was experimentally measured using 100 keV x-rays and 6 MeV and 10 MeV protons. The zone plate camera exhibited diffraction limited results, with higher order resolution of 4 um for 100 keV x-rays, and 9 um for 6 MeV protons.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Imaging systems--Testing; X-rays--Testing; Laser fusion
Publication Date
4-1-1984
Document Type
Thesis
Department, Program, or Center
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (CIAS)
Advisor
Francis, Ronald
Advisor/Committee Member
Granger, Edward
Recommended Citation
Stone, Gary F., "The fabrication and testing of thick gold Fresnel zone plates for high energy x-ray and charged particle imaging" (1984). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from
https://repository.rit.edu/theses/5145
Campus
RIT – Main Campus
Comments
Note: imported from RIT’s Digital Media Library running on DSpace to RIT Scholar Works. Physical copy available through RIT's The Wallace Library at: TA1775 .S86 1984