摘要 |
An x-ray optical assembly for increasing the intensity of a formed x-ray beam. The optical assembly includes a capillary type optical device and an x-ray reflective mirror device configured and aligned to provide a desirable x-ray crystallography beam. An x-ray beam from an x-ray source enters the individual capillaries of the capillary optical device, where the exit beam intensity is increased. The beam exits the capillary optical device at a particular convergent or divergent angle, and is directed into the mirror device. The mirror device either focuses or collimates the beam to have a small convergent or divergent angle suitable for the sample being analyzed. The mirror device can be any suitable device known in the art, such as a grazing incidence flat mirror device, a grazing incidence bent mirror device, a grazing incidence shaped mirror device or a graded multilayer mirror device.
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