Patents by Inventor Milen Gateshki
Milen Gateshki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230270394Abstract: The present invention relates to an X-ray analysis apparatus and a method of X-ray analysis. The X-ray analysis apparatus enables a user to carry out a plurality of X-ray analysis applications, for analysing a sample by measuring X-ray diffraction and/or X-ray fluorescence, using the same X-ray source. The apparatus comprises an X-ray source for irradiating the sample with X-rays, the X-ray source comprising a solid anode and a cathode for emitting an electron beam. It also comprises a focusing arrangement for focusing the electron beam onto the anode, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive X-ray analysis application information and to control the X-ray analysis apparatus to selectively operate in either a first X-ray analysis mode or a second X-ray analysis mode based on the X-ray analysis application information. In the first X-ray analysis mode the X-ray source operates at a first operating power and has an effective focal spot size that is less than 100 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Alexander Kharchenko, Milen Gateshki
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Publication number: 20230258584Abstract: The present invention relates to sample holder for holding a sample. The sample holder comprises a body having an incident surface and an opening in the body for receiving a sample. When the sample is irradiated with X-rays the incident surface of the sample holder may also be irradiated, especially at low incident angles. To reduce background scattering from the incident surface, the incident surface comprises a protrusion for blocking X-rays.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2021Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Milen Gateshki, Detlef BECKERS, Jan Vugteveen
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Publication number: 20220163466Abstract: A beam shaping apparatus (10) for use in an X-ray analysis device (40). The beam shaping apparatus processes an input N beam (32) from an X-ray beam source (20), and generates an output beam (34) with an output beam shape for irradiating a sample (112) held by a sample holder (22) of the X-ray analysis device. Movement of the output beam shape is controlled in dependence upon a varying tilt angle (?) of the sample (112), this defined by a tilt position of the sample holder (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Milen GATESHKI, Alexander KHARCHENKO, Detlef BECKERS, Nicholas NORBERG
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Patent number: 11035805Abstract: An X-ray analysis apparatus comprises an X-ray source configured to irradiate a sample with an incident X-ray beam. A first beam mask component is arranged between the X-ray source and the sample. The first beam mask component has a first opening for limiting the size of the incident X-ray beam. When the first beam mask component is in a first configuration, the first opening is arranged in the incident X-ray beam. The first beam mask component further comprises a second opening. When the first beam mask component is in a second configuration, the second opening is arranged in the incident X-ray beam. The second opening does not limit the size of the incident X-ray beam. A controller is configured to control a first beam mask component actuator to change the configuration of the first beam mask component between the first configuration and the second configuration by moving the first beam mask component in a plane intersected by the incident X-ray beam.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: MALVERN PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Milen Gateshki, Jaap Boksem
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Patent number: 10900912Abstract: The X-ray analysis apparatus of the present invention comprises a sample stage for supporting a sample, a goniometer having an axis of rotation, and an X-ray detector arranged to be rotatable about the axis of rotation of the goniometer, wherein the X-ray detector is arranged to receive X-rays from the sample directed along an X-ray beam path. The X-ray analysis apparatus further comprises a first collimator, a second collimator and a third collimator each having a first configuration and a second configuration. In its first configuration, the collimator is arranged in the X-ray beam path. In its second configuration the collimator is arranged outside of the X-ray beam path. A first actuator arrangement is configured to move the first collimator and the second collimator between the first configuration and the second configuration by moving the first collimator and the second collimator in a lateral direction that intersects the X-ray beam path.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: MALVERN PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Milen Gateshki, Jaap Boksem, Fabio Masiello
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Patent number: 10782252Abstract: An X-ray analysis apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises an adjustable slit (210) between an X-ray source (4) and a sample (6); and optionally a further slit (220, 220a). A controller (17) is configured to control a width of the adjustable slit, between a first width, a larger second width, and an even larger third width. At the first and second widths: the adjustable slit (210) limits the divergence of the incident beam and thereby limits an area of the sample that is irradiated; and the further slit (220) does not limit the divergence of the incident beam. At the third width: the adjustable slit (210) does not limit the divergence of the incident beam, and the further slit (220) limits the divergence of the incident beam and thereby limits the area of the sample that is irradiated. Alternatively, at the third width, the adjustable slit (210) continues to limit the area irradiated.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: MALVERN PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Milen Gateshki, Detlef Beckers
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Patent number: 10753890Abstract: An X-ray diffraction apparatus for high resolution measurement combines the use of an X-ray source with a target having an atomic number Z less 50 with an energy resolving X-ray detector having an array of pixels and a beta radiation multilayer mirror for selecting the K-beta radiation from the X-ray source and for reflecting the K-beta radiation onto the sample where it is diffracted onto the energy resolving X-ray detector. The sample may in particular be in transmission. The sample may be a powder sample in a capillary.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: MALVERN PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Alexander Kharchenko, Milen Gateshki, Eugene Reuvekamp
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Publication number: 20190317029Abstract: The X-ray analysis apparatus of the present invention comprises a sample stage for supporting a sample, a goniometer having an axis of rotation, and an X-ray detector arranged to be rotatable about the axis of rotation of the goniometer, wherein the X-ray detector is arranged to receive X-rays from the sample directed along an X-ray beam path. The X-ray analysis apparatus further comprises a first collimator, a second collimator and a third collimator each having a first configuration and a second configuration. In its first configuration, the collimator is arranged in the X-ray beam path. In its second configuration the collimator is arranged outside of the X-ray beam path. A first actuator arrangement is configured to move the first collimator and the second collimator between the first configuration and the second configuration by moving the first collimator and the second collimator in a lateral direction that intersects the X-ray beam path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Detlef BECKERS, Milen GATESHKI, Jaap BOKSEM, Fabio MASIELLO
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Publication number: 20190317030Abstract: An X-ray analysis apparatus comprises an X-ray source configured to irradiate a sample with an incident X-ray beam. A first beam mask component is arranged between the X-ray source and the sample. The first beam mask component has a first opening for limiting the size of the incident X-ray beam. When the first beam mask component is in a first configuration, the first opening is arranged in the incident X-ray beam. The first beam mask component further comprises a second opening. When the first beam mask component is in a second configuration, the second opening is arranged in the incident X-ray beam. The second opening does not limit the size of the incident X-ray beam. A controller is configured to control a first beam mask component actuator to change the configuration of the first beam mask component between the first configuration and the second configuration by moving the first beam mask component in a plane intersected by the incident X-ray beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Detlef BECKERS, Milen GATESHKI, Jaap BOKSEM
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Publication number: 20190317031Abstract: An X-ray analysis apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises an adjustable slit (210) between an X-ray source (4) and a sample (6); and optionally a further slit (220, 220a). A controller (17) is configured to control a width of the adjustable slit, between a first width, a larger second width, and an even larger third width. At the first and second widths: the adjustable slit (210) limits the divergence of the incident beam and thereby limits an area of the sample that is irradiated; and the further slit (220) does not limit the divergence of the incident beam. At the third width: the adjustable slit (210) does not limit the divergence of the incident beam, and the further slit (220) limits the divergence of the incident beam and thereby limits the area of the sample that is irradiated. Alternatively, at the third width, the adjustable slit (210) continues to limit the area irradiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Milen GATESHKI, Detlef BECKERS
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Patent number: 10352881Abstract: Apparatus for computed tomography is described that is also suitable for X-ray diffraction. The computed tomography measurement uses a line focus 8 and passes the X-rays from the line focus through a perpendicular slit 22 and then through a sample onto a two dimensional detector. A plurality of images are taken, each with the sample rotated about a rotation axis 14 by a different amount, and combined to create a computed tomography image.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MALVERN PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Milen Gateshki, Detlef Beckers
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Publication number: 20180259464Abstract: An X-ray diffraction apparatus for high resolution measurement combines the use of an X-ray source with a target having an atomic number Z less 50 with an energy resolving X-ray detector having an array of pixels and a beta radiation multilayer mirror for selecting the K-beta radiation from the X-ray source and for reflecting the K-beta radiation onto the sample where it is diffracted onto the energy resolving X-ray detector. The sample may in particular be in transmission. The sample may be a powder sample in a capillary.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Alexander Kharchenko, Milen Gateshki, Eugene Reuvekamp
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Publication number: 20180180560Abstract: Apparatus for computed tomography is described that is also suitable for X-ray diffraction. The computed tomography measurement uses a line focus 8 and passes the X-rays from the line focus through a perpendicular slit 22 and then through a sample onto a two dimensional detector. A plurality of images are taken, each with the sample rotated about a rotation axis 14 by a different amount, and combined to create a computed tomography image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Milen GATESHKI, Detlef BECKERS
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Patent number: 9784699Abstract: Quantitative X-ray analysis is carried out by making X-ray fluorescence measurements to determine the elemental composition of a sample and a correction measurement by measuring the transmitted intensity of X-rays at an energy E transmitted directly through the sample without deviation. An X-ray diffraction measurement is made in transmission by directing X-rays from an X-ray source at the energy E onto a sample at an incident angle ?1 to the surface of the sample and measuring a measured intensity Id(?fl) of the diffracted X-rays at the energy E with an X-ray detector at an exit angle ?2 corresponding to an X-ray diffraction peak of a predetermined component. A matrix corrected X-ray intensity is obtained using the measured X-ray intensity in the X-ray diffraction measurement, the correction measurement and the mass attenuation coefficient of the sample calculated from the elemental composition and the mass attenuation coefficients of the elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Charalampos Zarkadas, Milen Gateshki, Alexander Kharchenko, Waltherus Van Den Hoogenhof, Petronella Emerentiana Hegeman, Dick Kuiper
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Patent number: 9506880Abstract: A method of imaging phases in an inhomogeneous polycrystalline sample having a plurality of crystallites of at least a first crystalline component includes illuminating an illuminated area extending across a surface of a sample with substantially monochromatic X-rays incident at a Bragg-Brentano parafocussing geometry at first angle ?1 to the surface of the sample. X-rays diffracted by the sample at a second angle ?2 pass through a pinhole. The diffraction angle ?1+?2 fulfils a Bragg condition for the first crystalline component which is imaged by a detector to provide a two-dimensional image of the first crystalline component at the surface of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Milen Gateshki
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Publication number: 20160258890Abstract: Quantitative X-ray analysis is carried out by making X-ray fluorescence measurements to determine the elemental composition of a sample and a correction measurement by measuring the transmitted intensity of X-rays at an energy E transmitted directly through the sample without deviation. An X-ray diffraction measurement is made in transmission by directing X-rays from an X-ray source at the energy E onto a sample at an incident angle ?1 to the surface of the sample and measuring a measured intensity Id(?fl) of the diffracted X-rays at the energy E with an X-ray detector at an exit angle ?2 corresponding to an X-ray diffraction peak of a predetermined component. A matrix corrected X-ray intensity is obtained using the measured X-ray intensity in the X-ray diffraction measurement, the correction measurement and the mass attenuation coefficient of the sample calculated from the elemental composition and the mass attenuation coefficients of the elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: Charalampos Zarkadas, Milen Gateshki, Alexander Kharchenko, Waltherus Van Den Hoogenhof, Petronella Emerentiana Hegeman, Dick Kuiper
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Patent number: 9110003Abstract: A method of X-ray diffraction illuminates a beam (4) of X-rays along an illuminated strip (16) on a surface (14) of a sample (10). The X-rays are diffracted by the sample (10) and pass through a mask (20) having a slit extending essentially perpendicularly to the strip (16). The X-rays are detected by a two-dimensional X-ray detector to measure the diffracted X-rays at different positions along the strip (16).Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: PANALYTICAL B.V.Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Milen Gateshki
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Publication number: 20150003592Abstract: A method of imaging phases in an inhomogeneous polycrystalline sample having a plurality of crystallites of at least a first crystalline component includes illuminating an illuminated area extending across a surface of a sample with substantially monochromatic X-rays incident at a Bragg-Brentano parafocussing geometry at first angle ?1 to the surface of the sample. X-rays diffracted by the sample at a second angle ?2 pass through a pinhole. The diffraction angle ?1+?2 fulfils a Bragg condition for the first crystalline component which is imaged by a detector to provide a two-dimensional image of the first crystalline component at the surface of the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Detlef BECKERS, Milen GATESHKI
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Publication number: 20130243159Abstract: A method of X-ray diffraction illuminates a beam (4) of X-rays along an illuminated strip (16) on a surface (14) of a sample (10). The X-rays are diffracted by the sample (10) and pass through a mask (20) having a slit extending essentially perpendicularly to the strip (16). The X-rays are detected by a two-dimensional X-ray detector to measure the diffracted X-rays at different positions along the strip (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: PANalytical B.V.Inventors: Detlef Beckers, Milen Gateshki