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- Titlee2v gets technical at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Conference
- Date17 May 2006
e2v technologies has co-authored three technical submissions for the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation conference in Florida, 24-31 May. The Company will also exhibit samples from its range of CCD (charge coupled device) image sensors for space and astronomy applications at the adjoining exhibition, 25-30 May, on Booth #416.
‘Commercialization of full depletion scientific CCDs’
24 May: Conference #6276.
This paper details the design and manufacture of large-format scientific CCDs in high resistivity silicon for exceptionally high red wavelength spectral response.
‘A dedicated L3Vision™ CCD for adaptive optics applications’
25th May: Conference #6276
This paper discusses the development of a compact, Queen’s Award winning, Peltier-cooled back-illuminated L3Vision™ CCD for adaptive optics wavefront sensor applications.
‘Thermal modeling of cooled instruments: from the WIRCam IR camera to CCD Peltier cooled compact packages’
30th May: Conference #6271
This presentation will discuss the use of thermal modelling tools for ground-based astronomy applications.
For a full conference program, please visit: http://spie.org/conferences
e2v technologies supplies CCDs into a broad range of applications, including remote sensing, X-ray imaging, astronomical telescopes and scientific instrumentation. The Company’s back-thinning, very low read noise and refined package design ensure delivery of high performance devices to headline space agencies, including NASA and ESA, and major science institutions around the world.
e2v CCD sensors in NASA’s HiRISE ( High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) telescopic camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), captured their first test images of Mars on 24 March. The first colour images were captured on 6 April ( http://www.nasa.gov/mro). There are 25 e2v CCD image sensors on the NASA Mars probe, 14 of which are time-delay-integrate devices arranged in a long imager format, in order to generate the high image width required. MRO is currently orbiting Mars. Once it has reached its optimum location, it will commence scientific investigations, relying on the e2v sensors to provide images of unparalleled resolution from an orbiting spacecraft, to help determine the Red Planet’s water and ice history and identify suitable landing zones for future planned robotic explorers.
e2v was awarded last year the flight phase contract to supply the European Space Agency (ESA) with CCDs for the primary scientific instrument on its high profile Gaia space mission. Anticipated for launch in 2011, Gaia aims to map the Milky Way by logging the 1 billion stars and over 100,000 objects in our solar system, creating the largest, most accurate 3D map of our galaxy to date. The Gaia project w ill involve the manufacture in significant volumes of some of the highest performance large area CCD image sensors ever produced and the largest focal plane ever flown in space.
Amongst other contracts, the Company is also supplying 36 image sensors to the Chinese LAMOST (Large sky-Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) project. This ground-based initiative is a major project for astronomers in China. The 4k x 4k e2v devices for LAMOST's fibre fed spectrographs will be used to capture images of faint objects during spectral surveys of large areas of the sky.
For further information on e2v’s CCD capabilities, please visit Booth #416 or: http://imaging.e2v.com
