Design and performance of a capacitor-based burn-through monitor for high-power X-ray beams at XFEL facilities

Langeveld, W.; Rowen, M.; Prinz, A.; Armenta, R.; Chollet, M.; Gee, C.; Heimann, P.; Kirks, J.; Nakahara, K.; Ortiz, E.; Rokni, S.; Rosenstrom, A.; Sato, T.; Schlotter, B.; Smith, B.; Stefanescu, C.; Willard, Y.; Xiao, S.; Yavas, H.; Zhu, D.

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Figure 8
Photographs of the results of the short of the first high-voltage prototype capacitor BTM: (a) capacitor BTM in its enclosure; (b) zoom into the region where the beam struck the device; (c) microscope image made by focus-stacking several images acquired using a an Olympus BHM microscope with an OptixCam OCS-SK2-5.2X at 100× magnification.

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