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INFRARED PHYSICS & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 5, Pages 413-416Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.infrared.2007.12.004
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synchrotron; spatial resolution; microscopy; spectromicroscopy; imaging; diffraction
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Detailed spatial resolution tests were performed on beamline 1.4.4 at the Advanced Light Source synchrotron facility in Berkeley, CA. The high-brightness synchrotron source is coupled at this beamline to a Thermo-Electron Continu mu m XL infrared microscope. Two types of resolution tests in both the mid-IR (using a KBr beamsplitter and an MCT-A* detector) and in the near-IR (using a CaF(2) beamsplitter and an InGaAS detector) were performed and compared to a simple diffraction-limited spot size model. At the shorter wavelengths in the near-IR the experimental results begin to deviate from only diffraction-limited. The entire data set is fit using a combined diffraction-limit and demagnified electron beam source size model. This description experimentally verifies how the physical electron beam. size of the synchrotron source demagnified to the sample stage on the endstation begins to dominate the focussed spot size and therefore spatial resolution at higher energies. We discuss how different facilities, beamlines, and microscopes will affect the achievable spatial resolution. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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