2011 Ernest Fox Nichols Distinguished Lecture
Penny Warren
B.S. in Physics (1987) from Kansas State University
A Physicist Looks at Detector Engineering
November 14, 2011
4:30 pm
102 Cardwell Hall
The field of detector engineering encompasses light sensitive instruments from ultraviolet to infrared. There are very few universities in the world that offer a degree in detector engineering. So I describe how one physicist gravitated to this field. I provide an introduction to a variety of detectors: time projection chambers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, infrared detectors at the Naval Research Lab and visible focal plane arrays at Ball Aerospace and Technologies
Corporation.