X-Rays from Laser Plasmas: Generation and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780471983972 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 330 str.

I. C. Turcu; J. B. Dance; I. C. Edmond Turcu

Opis

Traditional X-ray sources are only efficient at generating hard X-rays, such as those applied in radiography, crystallography, and chemical analysis. The potential applications of soft X-rays have long been realized, but until recently these X-rays have only been generated via a type of particle accelerator called a synchrotron. While very efficient, synchrotrons are neither compact or user-friendly. An alternative to the synchrotron for producing soft X-rays is the laser-plasma source. The development of efficient laser plasma sources constitutes a leap forward in the field, and could open up a whole new range of applications in the semiconductor industry.

Spis treści

PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES.

Interaction of Soft X–Rays with Matter: Wave Behaviour (lambda ∼ 1 nm).

Interaction of Soft X–rays with Matter: Particle Behavior (hv ∼ 1 keV).

Laser–Produced Plasmas.

Excimer Lasers.

X–RAY SOURCE CONSTRUCTION, PERFORMANCE AND APPLICATIONS.

High Power KrF Lasers for X–Ray Generation.

High–Power Laser Plasma X–Ray Source.

X–Ray Microscopy.

X–Ray Micro– and Nano–Engineering.

Soft X–Ray Radiobiology.

Conclusions.

Index.

Blurb

Soft X–rays have great potential for use in a wide variety of applications, including the semiconductor industry and the life sciences. X–Rays from Laser Plasmas: Generation and Applications focuses exclusively and in detail on the science and technology of soft X–rays produced with non–synchrotron sources. Using a minimum of mathematical formulae, it discusses how such X–rays can be efficiently and economically generated from plasmas produced by lasers, and how they interact with matter. Authored by Dr Edmond Turcu, one of the pioneers in this field, X–Rays from Laser Plasmas: Generation and Applications will be of great interest to a wide variety of readers, including all those working in X–ray lithography, microscopy, and radiobiology.