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Episode 12: Compact optical system achieves achromatic focusing
MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast
English - July 08, 2022 17:00 - 4 minutes - 3.42 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsScience News Tech News materials research materials science 3d bioprinting artificial intelligence machine learning bioelectronics perovskites quantum materials robotics and synthetic biology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Sophia Chen interviews Adam Kubec at Swiss startup XRNanotech and research team member Marie-Christine Zdora of the Paul Scherrer Institut about their proof-of-principle of an x-ray achromatic lens. The lens consist of a focusing diffractive and a defocusing refractive optical element that achieves imaging of a range of wavelengths without having to move the sample. The researchers used two different diffractive lenses, one made from nickel and one with gold. To fabricate the refractive lens, they used a nanoscale 3D printing technique known as two-photon polymerization. This work was published in a recent issue of Nature Communications (doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28902-8).