Single- or multi-walled carbon nanotube pellicles investigated for NewAthena

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CNT films are very promising as substrates for thermal and optical filters for X-ray or EUV detectors for space applications. This new technology is under evaluation as potential optical blocking and thermal filters for the ESA space mission New Athena. The main goal of this work is to compare the spectroscopic performance, in band (soft X-rays) and out-of-band (UV-VISMIR), of different kinds of CNT pellicles, namely randomly oriented dual layer single walled (SW), randomly oriented dual layer multi walled (MW), and oriented multiple layer MW. Based on this study, the appropriate CNT pellicle may be chosen to design a set of representative thin filter breadboards for the New Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit detector to achieve the Technology Readiness Level 5 before Athena Mission Adoption (June 2027).

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