Projects

International

EXTREMA – Moderné rtg zobrazovacie a tomografické metódy využívajúce fázový kontrast
Enhanced X-ray tomographic reconstruction: experiment, modeling, and algorithms
Program: COST
Project leader: Ing. Zápražný Zdenko, PhD.
Duration: 16.5.2013 – 15.5.2017

National

Vysokovýkonná zakrivená röntgenová optika pripravená pokročilou technológiou nanoobrábania
High-performance curved X-ray optics prepared by advanced nanomachining technology
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Zápražný Zdenko, PhD.
Annotation: The project is focused on the research and development of new types of X-ray optics with highly accurate curvedactive surfaces. The surfaces will be prepared by an innovative nanomachining technology. We will investigatethe application of nanomachining technology to a special case of X-ray optics with curved surfaces, which is aparabolic refractive lens operating in the transmission geometry. The second special case we will focus on will bethin crystal monochromators with different thicknesses in a range of 20-2000 micrometers. Such elements can beused for example as beam splitters in modern X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL), bent crystals in Johanssonmonochromators for spectroscopic applications, or they can also be used in particle accelerators for beamsteering. The developed elements of curved X-ray optics will be tested in real X-ray metrology and X-ray imagingexperiments using laboratory or synchrotron X-ray sources and highly sensitive directly converting X-raydetectors Pilatus and Medipix.
Duration: 1.1.2021 – 31.12.2023
Pokročilé monochromátory s pridanou funkcionalitou úpravy zväzku pre röntgenovú metrológiu a röntgenové zobrazovanie
Advanced monochromators with added functionality of the beam conditioning for X-ray metrology and X-ray imaging
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Zápražný Zdenko, PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2018 – 31.12.2020
Výskum technológie nanoobrábania pre aktívne povrchy novej generácie rtg optiky
Research of the nanomachining technology for active surfaces of the new generation of the X-ray optics
Program: SRDA
Project leader: Ing. Zápražný Zdenko, PhD.
Duration: 1.7.2015 – 30.6.2019
Vysoko kvalitné aktívne povrchy pre novú generáciu prvkov kryštálovej röntgenovej optiky
High quality active surfaces for new generation of X-ray crystal optics elements
Program: VEGA
Project leader: Ing. Zápražný Zdenko, PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2015 – 31.12.2017