Scope

XOPT covers the recent progress of X-ray technology and developments with topics including the following fields:

• X-ray optical components

  • High-resolution monochromators
  • High-resolution spectrometers/analyzers
  • Optics for high-energy X-ray applications
  • Beamline monochromators/mirrors
  • Focusing optics (reflective, refractive, diffractive)
  • Phase retarders and polarization optics
  • Diagnostics tools
  • New optics for diffraction-limited synchrotron radiation (DLSR)

• Methods/applications

  • X-ray imaging/microscopy
  • X-ray inelastic scattering
  • Time resolved analysis
  • X-ray correlation spectroscopy
  • Nonlinear X-ray optics
  • New Methods/applications for DLSR

• Others

  • X-ray sources
  • X-ray detectors