Mohit Tendulkar
Pennsylvania State University
7 Papers
15 Citations
Mohit Tendulkar is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Thin film & Sputter deposition. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 7 publications.
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Papers
Deterministic figure correction of piezoelectrically adjustable slumped glass optics
Casey T. DeRoo,Ryan Allured,Vincenzo Cotroneo,Edward Hertz,Vanessa Marquez,Paul B. Reid,Eric D. Schwartz,Alexey Vikhlinin,Susan Trolier-McKinstry,Julian Walker,Thomas N. Jackson,Tianning Liu,Mohit Tendulkar +12 more
- 29 Aug 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, an adjustable cylindrical slumped glass optic has been used for figure correction after mounting and on-orbit, achieving 100% piezoelectric cell yield and employing lithographically patterned traces and anisotropic conductive film (ACF) connections.
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Thickness distribution of sputtered films on curved substrates for adjustable x-ray optics
Nathan L. Bishop,Julian Walker,Casey T. DeRoo,Tianning Liu,Mohit Tendulkar,Vincenzo Cotroneo,Edward Hertz,Vladimir Kradinov,Eric D. Schwartz,Paul B. Reid,Thomas N. Jackson,Susan Trolier-McKinstry +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, a mathematical model of the film thickness distribution is derived based on the geometric properties of the sputter tool and the substrate, and film thicknesses deposited with a commercially available sputtering tool are measured with spectroscopic ellipsometry.
Design and fabrication of adjustable X-ray optics using piezoelectric thin films
Julian Walker,Tianning Liu,Mohit Tendulkar,David N. Burrows,Casey T. DeRoo,Ryan Allured,Edward Hertz,Vincenzo Cotroneo,Paul B. Reid,Eric D. Schwartz,Thomas N. Jackson,Susan Trolier-McKinstry +11 more
- 29 Aug 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the cleaning of Corning Eagle XG glass substrates for thin shell X-ray mirrors by a three stage acid and solvent cleaning procedure before a 0.02 μm Ti adhesion layer and a 0 1 μm Pt bottom electrode layer were deposited using DC magnetron sputtering.
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Progress in development of adjustable optics for x-ray astronomy
Vincenzo Cotroneo,Casey T. DeRoo,Thomas N. Jackson,Vladimir Kradinov,Tianning Liu,Vanessa Marquez,Paul B. Reid,Daniel A. Schwartz,Eric D. Schwartz,Mohit Tendulkar,Susan Trolier-McKinstry,Julian Walker +11 more
- 26 Oct 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed an adaptive X-ray telescope using thin films of lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) deposited on the back of thermally formed thin substrates, which represents a potential solution to the challenging trade-off between high surface quality and low mass.
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Design and fabrication of prototype piezoelectric adjustable X-ray mirrors.
Julian Walker,Tianning Liu,Mohit Tendulkar,David N. Burrows,Casey T. DeRoo,Ryan Allured,Edward Hertz,Vincenzo Cotroneo,Paul B. Reid,Eric D. Schwartz,Thomas N. Jackson,Susan Trolier-McKinstry +11 more
TL;DR: The development and fabrication of one of the candidate technologies for Lynx, piezoelectric adjustable X-ray optics is detailed, which discusses the fabrication procedure, residual thermal stresses and tuning of the Cr/Ir coating stress for the purposes of stress balancing.