Zone-doubled Fresnel zone plates for high-resolution hard X-ray full-field transmission microscopy

J Synchrotron Radiat. 2012 Sep;19(Pt 5):705-9. doi: 10.1107/S0909049512029640. Epub 2012 Jul 28.

Abstract

Full-field transmission X-ray microscopy is a unique non-destructive technique for three-dimensional imaging of specimens at the nanometer scale. Here, the use of zone-doubled Fresnel zone plates to achieve a spatial resolution better than 20 nm in the hard X-ray regime (8-10 keV) is reported. By obtaining a tomographic reconstruction of a Ni/YSZ solid-oxide fuel cell, the feasibility of performing three-dimensional imaging of scientifically relevant samples using such high-spatial-resolution Fresnel zone plates is demonstrated.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.