The successful completion of our proposed SBIR activities will result in the development and commercial availability of high-performance broad-band EUV multilayer coatings for the 9–14 nm range that can meet the performance goals of future NASA solar physics missions. The realization of broad-band multilayer coatings having high reflectance at the target wavelengths, low film stress, and good thermal and temporal stability, will enable the construction of high performance imaging spectrometers targeting this wavelength range for the first time. These new coatings could be used for future flights of the EUNIS sounding rocket instrument, and for future NASA satellite missions such as RAM, Solar-C and others.
The new broad-band EUV multilayers we propose to develop could find application in a variety of research areas in addition to solar physics, including plasma diagnostics, synchrotron instrumentation, ultra-fast physics, and free-electron laser experiments.
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