Polycapillary Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Lenses

Custom polycapillary X-ray optical solutions are provided based on customer requirements.

Polycapillary collimating lens devices convert highly divergent X-ray beams into low-divergence quasi-parallel beams. These lens devices are primarily used in X-ray diffraction (XRD) and wavelength dispersive spectroscopy (WDS).

Polycapillary focusing lens devices collect X-rays from the source over a large solid angle and focus them into a spot as small as 10 µm. The resulting X-ray flux density is several orders of magnitude higher than that obtained with conventional pinhole collimators. The primary application of these lens devices is micro X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis, widely used in thin film and plating analysis, precious metal evaluation, alloy measurement, and circuit board coating monitoring. These lens devices can also be used for detection in applications such as confocal XRF analysis and superconducting energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometers. The use of polycapillary focusing lens devices significantly improves detection sensitivity and allows high performance with low-power X-ray tubes. Micrometer-level spatial resolution enables application in the evaluation of small features in electronics and precious metals. Polycapillary lens devices provide gains of 100x-10,000x, with output focal spots as small as 10 µm.

Features Order-of-magnitude flux gain from micrometer-sized spots • Integrated with compact low-power supplies, providing flux equivalent to rotating anode sources       • Broad spectral bandwidth: 50 eV - 50 KeV • Point-to-point focusing beams • Point-to-parallel beams • Customizable housing designs