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https://www.nist.gov/patents/inventors/1162061
Search Patents by Luis Miaja Avila
Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.
Kevin L. Silverman
,
Carl D. Reintsema
,
Galen O'Neil
,
Luis Miaja Avila
,
Daniel Swetz
,
W.Bertrand (Randy) Doriese
,
Dan Schmidt
,
Bradley Alpert
,
Joseph Fowler
,
Joel Ullom
and
Ralph Jimenez
This invention includes: an x-ray plasma source that produces primary x-rays; an x-ray optic that transmits and focuses the primary x-ray onto a sample jet from which fluorescence x-ray are emitted; and a microcalorimeter array detector that measures the energy of the incoming fluorescence x-rays