RIDL News

October, 2009

RIDL Director Invited to Speak at AstroMed09, Sydney, Australia

RIDL Director Invited to Speak at Detectors for Astronomy 2009, Munich, Germany

September, 2009

Youtube Video of RIDL on The History Channel (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)

RIDL Student Kim Kolb Awarded Prestigious BAE Fellowship (Photo and caption)

RIDL Featured on Rochester CBS/Fox News Channel 8 and 31 (video)

July, 2009

A Day in the Life of the RIDL Director in Astronomy Magazine

RIDL to be Featured on History Channel

May, 2009

RIDL Featured in RIT Research Magazine

March, 2009

RIDL Hosts Quantum Limited Detector Workshop

Press Release
RIT Presents: The Next Generation of Imaging Detectors

Agenda with Recorded Presentations and Slides
Workshop Web Site

October, 2008

Moore Foundation Awards RIDL $2.8 Million to Develop “Noiseless” Detector

Press Release
Moore Foundation Awards RIT Scientist $2.8 Million to Develop “Noiseless” Detector

News Articles
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Laser Focus World

April 2008

RIDL Receives NASA Planetary and Earth Sciences Detector Development Grant

Press Release
LIDAR Imaging Detector Could Build ‘Super Road Maps’ of Planets and Moons

News Articles
Channel 10 News Video (Associated article)
MIT Technology Review
Optics.org
Astrobiology Magazine
United Press International
Popular Science
Spacemart.com
PHYSORG.com
Universe Today
Science Daily
Photonics.com
The Times of India
New India Press
RIT University News

August 2007

RIDL Receives NASA Planetary Science Detector Development Grant

Press Release
New Imaging Detectors Could Take Snapshots from Deep Space

News Articles
MSNBC: New Cameras Can Withstand Space Radiation
Space.com: Tougher cameras Designed to Withstand Space Radiation
Photonics.com: Detector Resists Radiation

May 2007

RIDL Selected by NASA to Develop New Deep Space Detectors

March 2007

RIDL Achieves First Light with 4Kx4K SiPIN Detector

October 2006

RIDL Chosen to Lead the LSST Guider Project

The RIDL team will lead the effort to design and deliver a guider to the LSST Project. The work will be done in collaboration with LSST team members at a variety of DOE laboratories and Universities.

RIDL Chosen to Perform SNAP Prototype Detector Testing

The RIDL team will perform full-suite testing of a SNAP prototype detector. The device is custom-designed to meet mission requirements. The testing includes dark current as a function of temperature (100 K to 180 K), read noise for CDS, UTR, and Fowler read modes, charge persistence, linearity, well depth, and quantum efficiency.

February 2006

RIDL Director Receives NYSTAR Faculty Development Award

Figer Massive Stars Group News