Development of achromatic full-field x-ray microscopy with compact imaging mirror system

Compact advanced Kirkpatrick–Baez optics are used to construct a microscope that is easy to align and robust against vibrations and thermal drifts. The entire length of the imaging mirror system is 286 mm, which is 34% shorter than the previous model. A spatial resolution test is performed in which magnified bright-field images of a pattern are taken with an X-ray camera at an energy of 10 keV at the BL29XUL beamline of SPring-8. A line-and-space pattern having a 50- nm width could be resolved, although the image contrast is low.