Superflat builds upon longstanding collaborations between experts developing new optical solutions for use at accelerator-based light-sources. Some of the European-led initiatives related to X-ray optics development and characterisation are presented here.
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Superflat is a workpackage of the LEAP-INNOV project which focusses on new approaches for partnerships between industry and the photon science community, with the goal of accumulating a strategy for long-term industry engagement for LEAPS in Europe.
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The PUCCA workpackage of the EUCALL project investigated various diagnostic techniques for measuring distortions of partially coherent hard X-ray wavefronts.
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Various activities in the NFFA and NEP projects explore how new fabrication technologies can be used to extend the capabilities of analytical tools for research at the nanoscale. Significant developments have been made in the domain of nanofabrication methods for X-ray optics.
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Many of the Superflat partners also work closely together within a joint research activity of the CALIPSOplus project. This activity aims to improve the precision of mirror metrology in Europe to single-nanometer figure error and 20 nrad rms slope error.
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Another workpackage of the LEAPS-INNOV project is exploring disruptive technologies based upon electron beam lithography for the fabrication of diffraction gratings.