Technical Event
Panel Discussion on Comparative Attributes of HOT III-V (T2SL and bulk) vs HOT HgCdTe
In person: 4 April 2022 • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT | Ballroom Level, Osceola Ballroom B
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Moderator:
John L. Miller, Cascade Electro-Optics, LLC (United States)
Panelists:
Eric M. Costard, IRnova AB (Sweden)
Eric joined Thales in 1985, where he has developed his background in semiconductor physics and processing. From the beginning of the 21st century, he developed with his team innovation in infrared detection field and set up a pilot production line for both QWIP and InGaAs focal plane array detectors. Eric headed the IR Imaging Laboratory at III-VLab. Subsequent to his work at Thales he also headed the III-V industrial transfer initiative at Sofradir in 2013. After many years working within the French Infrared industry, Eric moved to Sweden in 2015 for joining IRnova in Sweden where he continues to develop III-V detectors like QWIP and T2SL for gas detection and high end applications. Eric authored or co-authored 15 patents and more than 80 scientific papers in the field of Quantum Structure Infrared Photodetectors and received the Lamb Grand Prize from the French Academy of Science in 2006 for his work in the field of Quantum Well detector development.
Stefan Hanna, AIM INFRAROT-MODULE GmbH (Germany)
Stefan Hanna received the M.S degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree from Universität Bayreuth, Germany, He has been with AIM since 07, working in the electro-optical characterization of infrared detectors for space applications. Then Stefan was a Project Manager of various research and development studies with the European Space Agency. He then lead System Design of the AIM Division Space Programs and he was working with sensor development. Since 2018, he has been Head of Photodiode Array Development at AIM.
Philip C. Klipstein, SCD SemiConductor Devices (Israel)
Philip Klipstein received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Oxford and Cambridge Universities respectively. Between 1984 and 2000, he held tenured posts first at Imperial College, London and then at Oxford University, where he became Reader in 1999. Soon after a sabbatical at the Weizmann Institute, he joined Semiconductor Devices (SCD), where he is now a Senior Principal Scientist. He has published more than 160 research articles, and is an inventor of 5 patents.
Tony J. Ragucci, Leonardo DRS (United States)
Tony Ragucci received his B.S. in Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, M.S. in Physics from The Pennsylvania State, and Ph.D. in Physics from The Ohio State. Tony is the Senior Director of Engineering for Sensors and Technology at Leonardo DRS. He directs the development of cooled, uncooled and advanced sensors, including 6µm pitch HOT HgCdTe. Previously, he was the AeroDAS Program Area Chief Engineer at Raytheon Vision Systems, where he led development of the F-35 EODAS IDCA, which uses HOT T2SL FPA, so he has worked both sides of the fence.
Laurent Rubaldo, LYNRED (France)
After a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University Grenoble Alpes in 2001 in the field of electrical defects characterization in silicon and silicon alloys, he joined STMicroelectronics in 2001. First as a device characterization R&D Engineer, and moved to a position of technical leader for process development. In 2007, he joined the Sofradir Group, now LYNRED, to work on electro-optical characterization and performances optimization of cooled IR Photodetectors. He holds a position of Semiconductor and Optoelectronics Expert since 2012.
Meimei Tidrow, DEVCOM C5ISR (United States)
Meimei Tidrow is the Chief Scientist for Focal Plane Arrays at the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. She has been the successful champion for the most advanced infrared sensor material development in U. S. government. She was leading a National effort for the Vital Infrared Sensor Technology Acceleration (VISTA) program, which was focused on the new class of infrared (IR) detector material using III-V antimony-based type II strained layer superlattice (SLS). In a short five years, significant progress has been made under VISTA and this new infrared material has now been transitioned to industry for production, and to military systems that significantly impacted the system size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C). Before joining NVESD in 2008, she was the Technical Advisor to the S&T Director at Missile Defense Agency where she was promoted to ST (Senior Research Scientist, the highest technical rank in US government) in 2005. She received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Senior Professional in 2012, and was featured in SPIE Women in Optics Planner in 2011. She is a Military Sensing Symposium Fellow since 2007 and SPIE Fellow since 2008. She has over 100 journal and conference publications and presentations.
David Z. Ting, Jet Propulsion Lab., Caltech (United States)
David Ting received his B.S. in physics from Caltech, and M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a senior research scientist and principal member of engineering staff at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the SPIE.
This panel discussion is part of the Infrared Technology and Applications XLVIII conference.
John L. Miller, Cascade Electro-Optics, LLC (United States)
Panelists:
Eric M. Costard, IRnova AB (Sweden)
Eric joined Thales in 1985, where he has developed his background in semiconductor physics and processing. From the beginning of the 21st century, he developed with his team innovation in infrared detection field and set up a pilot production line for both QWIP and InGaAs focal plane array detectors. Eric headed the IR Imaging Laboratory at III-VLab. Subsequent to his work at Thales he also headed the III-V industrial transfer initiative at Sofradir in 2013. After many years working within the French Infrared industry, Eric moved to Sweden in 2015 for joining IRnova in Sweden where he continues to develop III-V detectors like QWIP and T2SL for gas detection and high end applications. Eric authored or co-authored 15 patents and more than 80 scientific papers in the field of Quantum Structure Infrared Photodetectors and received the Lamb Grand Prize from the French Academy of Science in 2006 for his work in the field of Quantum Well detector development.
Stefan Hanna, AIM INFRAROT-MODULE GmbH (Germany)
Stefan Hanna received the M.S degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree from Universität Bayreuth, Germany, He has been with AIM since 07, working in the electro-optical characterization of infrared detectors for space applications. Then Stefan was a Project Manager of various research and development studies with the European Space Agency. He then lead System Design of the AIM Division Space Programs and he was working with sensor development. Since 2018, he has been Head of Photodiode Array Development at AIM.
Philip C. Klipstein, SCD SemiConductor Devices (Israel)
Philip Klipstein received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Oxford and Cambridge Universities respectively. Between 1984 and 2000, he held tenured posts first at Imperial College, London and then at Oxford University, where he became Reader in 1999. Soon after a sabbatical at the Weizmann Institute, he joined Semiconductor Devices (SCD), where he is now a Senior Principal Scientist. He has published more than 160 research articles, and is an inventor of 5 patents.
Tony J. Ragucci, Leonardo DRS (United States)
Tony Ragucci received his B.S. in Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, M.S. in Physics from The Pennsylvania State, and Ph.D. in Physics from The Ohio State. Tony is the Senior Director of Engineering for Sensors and Technology at Leonardo DRS. He directs the development of cooled, uncooled and advanced sensors, including 6µm pitch HOT HgCdTe. Previously, he was the AeroDAS Program Area Chief Engineer at Raytheon Vision Systems, where he led development of the F-35 EODAS IDCA, which uses HOT T2SL FPA, so he has worked both sides of the fence.
Laurent Rubaldo, LYNRED (France)
After a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University Grenoble Alpes in 2001 in the field of electrical defects characterization in silicon and silicon alloys, he joined STMicroelectronics in 2001. First as a device characterization R&D Engineer, and moved to a position of technical leader for process development. In 2007, he joined the Sofradir Group, now LYNRED, to work on electro-optical characterization and performances optimization of cooled IR Photodetectors. He holds a position of Semiconductor and Optoelectronics Expert since 2012.
Meimei Tidrow, DEVCOM C5ISR (United States)
Meimei Tidrow is the Chief Scientist for Focal Plane Arrays at the U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. She has been the successful champion for the most advanced infrared sensor material development in U. S. government. She was leading a National effort for the Vital Infrared Sensor Technology Acceleration (VISTA) program, which was focused on the new class of infrared (IR) detector material using III-V antimony-based type II strained layer superlattice (SLS). In a short five years, significant progress has been made under VISTA and this new infrared material has now been transitioned to industry for production, and to military systems that significantly impacted the system size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C). Before joining NVESD in 2008, she was the Technical Advisor to the S&T Director at Missile Defense Agency where she was promoted to ST (Senior Research Scientist, the highest technical rank in US government) in 2005. She received the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Senior Professional in 2012, and was featured in SPIE Women in Optics Planner in 2011. She is a Military Sensing Symposium Fellow since 2007 and SPIE Fellow since 2008. She has over 100 journal and conference publications and presentations.
David Z. Ting, Jet Propulsion Lab., Caltech (United States)
David Ting received his B.S. in physics from Caltech, and M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a senior research scientist and principal member of engineering staff at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the SPIE.
This panel discussion is part of the Infrared Technology and Applications XLVIII conference.