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Physics of X-Ray and Neutron Multilayer Structures International Workshop, Enschede, 10-11 November 2016

The XUV Optics group has organized on November 10th and 11th 2016 a very successful workshop on X-ray and neutron multilayer optics, in short PXRNMS, at MESA+.

Almost all groups active world-wide on multilayer systems were represented at the workshop, resulting in an audience of 100 attendants from 35 research institutions and 6 companies from 13 countries. Lively discussions, outstanding presentations, new contacts and plans were all elements of the workshop. Credits go to Eric Louis and his team of organizers from the XUV Optics group at MESA+ for arranging and presiding the workshop. 

Highlights of presentations ranged from a comprehensive overview by the éminence grise of multilayer systems Eberhard Spiller (formerly IBM/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA), to presentations on high-resolution structural analysis (Anton Haase, PTB, Berlin and Igor Makhotkin, MESA+), the physics of competitive contamination processes of EUV optics (Maarten van Kampen, ASML), the demonstration of nanoscale focussing using Laue lenses (Stephan Braun, Fraunhofer IWS and Jiayi Zhang, Beijing Synchrotron), development of high resolution X-ray microscopes (Mitsunori Toyoda, Tohoku University), design of multilayers for attosecond pulses (Alexander Guggenmos, University Munich), neutron multilayer mirrors (Thierry Bigault, ILL, Grenoble), and multilayer systems and stability (Nikolai Chkhalo, IPM, Nizhny Novgorod, Dmitriy Kuznetsov, MESA+ and Christian Morawe, ESRF, Grenoble). 

The workshop was meant to form a revival of the so-called PXRMS, a bi-yearly series of workshops held from 1992 to 2010. That tradition provided a platform for multilayer physics from different disciplines and applications. It was generally felt in the community of attendants that the tradition deserved a worthy continuation, which now took off with the PXRNMS at Twente. In 2018 the workshop will be held in Paris, organized by Prof. Franck Delmotte from the Institut d’Optique in Palaiseau. 

The workshop was sponsored by