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FIGURE 7.8 Scanning electron microscope image of the front (A) and back (B) side of the
JWST microshutter array (Source: NASA GSFC.)

FIGURE 7.9 Optical transmission image of a pattern written with the microshutter array
(Source: NASA GSFC.)

device is scheduled to be delivered for instrument integration in 2007, with a
projected launch date in 2009. As a risk mitigation path, a macroscopic slit array
is fabricated in parallel. 42

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