Efficient Achromatic Broadband Focusing and Polarization Manipulation of a Novel Designed Multifunctional Metasurface Zone Plate [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2021 In this paper, comprehensively utilizing the diffraction theory and electromagnetic resonance effect is creatively employed to design a multifunctional metasurface zone plate (MMZP) and achieve the control of polarization states, while maintaining a ...
Shaobo Ge +8 more
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Miniaturized Sulfite-Based Gold Bath for Controlled Electroplating of Zone Plate Nanostructures [PDF]
Micromachines, 2022 X-ray zone plates made from gold are common optical components used in X-ray imaging experiments. These nanostructures are normally fabricated using a combination of electron-beam lithography and gold electroplating with cyanide gold baths. In this study,
Hanna Ohlin +3 more
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Trapezoid-kinoform zone plate lens – a solution for efficient focusing in hard X-ray optics [PDF]
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2022 X-ray microscopes are powerful tools in the nano-inspection of materials owing to their ultra-high resolution at the molecular level. However, the focusing efficiency of binary zone plate lenses as key components in such probes is merely 5% in practice ...
Xujie Tong +9 more
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High-efficiency focusing and imaging by dielectric kinoform zone plate lenses with soft X-rays [PDF]
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 2023 With fast advances in enhancing the focusing/imaging resolution of Fresnel zone plate lenses toward sub-10 nm, low diffraction efficiency in connection with their rectangular zone shape still remains a big issue in both soft and hard X-ray microscopy. In
Xujie Tong +9 more
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An Out-of-Plane Operated Soft Engine Driving Stretchable Zone Plate for Adjusting Focal Point of an Ultrasonic Beam [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 This paper presents a soft engine which performs up-and-down motion with four planar film-structured ionic polymer—metal composites (IPMC) actuators. This soft engine assembled with a stretchable Fresnel zone plate is capable of tuning the focus of
Guo-Hua Feng, Hong-Yu Liu
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Pinhole Zone Plate Lens for Ultrasound Focusing [PDF]
Sensors, 2017 The focusing capabilities of a pinhole zone plate lens are presented and compared with those of a conventional Fresnel zone plate lens. The focusing properties are examined both experimentally and numerically.
Constanza Rubio +5 more
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Design of Acoustical Bessel-Like Beam Formation by a Pupil Masked Soret Zone Plate Lens [PDF]
Sensors, 2019 The image performance of acoustic and ultrasound sensors depends on several fundamental parameters such as depth of focus or lateral resolution. There are currently two different types of acoustic diffractive lenses: those that form a diffraction-limited
Daniel Tarrazó-Serrano +5 more
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Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Monocapillary x-ray lenses (MXRLs) are mostly used as condensers in full-field transmission x-ray microscopy (TXM) based on synchrotron radiation or laboratory x-ray tubes.
Xuepeng Sun +12 more
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On the Design of Soret Zone Plates Based on Binary Sequences Using Directional Transducers
Sensors, 2021 In this work, we analyze the effect of the distribution of transparent Fresnel regions over the focusing profile of Soret Zone Plates (SZP) based on binary sequences. It is shown that this effect becomes very significant in those fields where directional
Pilar Candelas +2 more
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Single Layer Lift-Off of CSAR62 for Dense Nanostructured Patterns
Micromachines, 2023 Lift-off processing is a common method of pattern transfer for different nanofabrication applications. With the emergence of chemically amplified and semi-amplified resist systems, the possibilities for pattern definition via electron beam lithography ...
Hanna Ohlin, Thomas Frisk, Ulrich Vogt
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