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Significance: World-class thin grazing-angle
Project Title: Next Generation
PI: Zhang, William (GSFC)
Significance: Highest-resolution
Project Title: Technology Maturation for a High-Sensitivity and High-Resolving-Power
PI: Mark Schattenburg (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
Significance: Enhances manufacturability of highest-resolution
Project Title: Readying
PI: Randall Smith (SAO)
Significance: Fast readouts are crucial for large focal plane arrays in future missions
Project Title: Development of Low-Power FPGA-based Readout Electronics for Superconducting Detector Arrays
PI: Philip Mauskopf (ASU)
Significance: Low-noise detectors are crucial for future missions
Project Title: A Single-Photon-Sensing and Photon-Number-Resolving Detector for NASA Missions
PI: Don Figer (RIT)
Significance: CMB polarimetry is crucial for identifying echoes of the Big Bang
Project Title: Superconducting Detectors for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Polarimetry in PICO
PI: Roger O’Brient (JPL/Caltech)
Significance: High-resolution TES microcalorimeters may enable strategic
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Steve Smith (GSFC)
Significance: MMCs offer energy resolution that may enable the next
Project Title: MMC Arrays for
PI: Simon Bandler (GSFC)
Significance: High-quality
Project Title:
PI: Jeff Kolodziejczak (MSFC)
Significance: High-quality
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Panini Singam (MSFC)
Significance: High-quality
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Stephen Bongiorno (MSFC)
Significance: High-quality
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Danielle Gurgew (MSFC)
Significance: Advanced
Project Title: Toward Fast, Low-Noise, Radiation Tolerant
PI: Mark Bautz (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
Significance: Advancing time-domain multiplexing (TDM) technology for large-format TES bolometers could enable or enhance the next Far-IR Great Observatory
Project Title: Advancing Readout of Large-Format Far-IR Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays
PI: Karwan Rostem (GSFC)
Significance: High-density readout may enable large focal planes needed for future missions
Project Title: Advancing High-Density Readout Technology for Superconducting Sensor Arrays for Spaceflight
PI: Larry Ruckman (SLAC)
Significance: High-multiplexing-factor readouts may enable missions such as the next
Project Title: Technology development for Microwave Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) multiplexing for the Lynx
PI: Douglas Bennett (NIST)
Significance: This advanced sub-Kelvin cooling technology may enable multiple future strategic missions
Project Title: High-Efficiency Continuous Cooling for Cryogenic Instruments and sub-Kelvin Detectors
PI: James Tuttle (GSFC)
Significance: : Ultra-stability and -precision (~10 pm) may enable the next IR/optical/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: Ultra-Stable Structures: Development and Characterization Using Spatial Dynamic Metrology
PI: Babak Saif (GSFC)
Significance: Advanced
Project Title: Development of a Robust, Efficient Process to Produce Scalable, Superconducting Kilopixel
PI: Johannes Staguhn (JHU & GSFC)
Significance: Advanced coatings may enable future far-UV missions
Project Title: High-Performance, Stable, and Scalable UV Aluminum Mirror Coatings Using ALD
PI: John Hennessy (JPL)
Significance: High far-UV reflectance is prevented by oxidation of aluminum mirrors; removing it may enable future far-UV missions
Project Title: E-Beam-Generated Plasma Etching for Developing High-Reflectance Mirrors for Far-Ultraviolet Astronomical Instrument Applications
PI: Manuel Quijada (GSFC)
Significance: Extremely sensitive far-IR detectors may enable future missions
Project Title: Ultra-Sensitive Bolometers for
PI: C. Matt Bradford (JPL)
Significance: Further development of this high-resolution
Project Title: Development of High-Resolution
PI: Imran Mehdi (JPL)
Significance: Ultra-low-noise detectors may enable spectroscopy of extrasolar planets
Project Title: Photon-Counting NIR LmAPD Arrays for Ultra-Low Background Space Observations
PI: Michael Bottom (U. of Hawaii)
Significance: This technology may enable required ultra-stability (~10 pm) for the next IR/Optical/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: UV/Optical to Far-IR Mirror and Telescope Technology
PI: H. Philip Stahl (MSFC)
Significance: May enable future UV/optical spectroscopic missions; enables current UV suborbital missions
Project Title: Electron-Beam-Lithography Ruled Gratings for Future UV/Optical Missions: High Efficiency and Low Scatter in the Vacuum UV
PI: Brian Fleming (U. of Colorado)
Significance: May enable future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) missions, e.g. LiteBIRD
Project Title: Technology Development for LiteBIRD and other CMB Missions
PI: Adrian T. Lee (UC Berkeley)
Significance: May enable sparse-field multi-object spectroscopy for future strategic and other missions
Project Title: Scalable Microshutter Systems for UV, Visible, and IR Spectroscopy
PI: Matt Greenhouse (GSFC)
Significance: May enable UV/Visible light detection for future strategic missions such as an IR/O/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: High-Performance Sealed-Tube Cross-Strip (XS) Photon-Counting Sensors for UV-Vis Astrophysics Instruments
PI: Oswald Siegmund (UC Berkeley)
Significance: Four-side-buttable low-power readout chips may enable future far-UV missions with large focal planes
Project Title: Large-Format, High-Dynamic-Range UV detector using MCPs and Timepix4 readouts
PI: John Vallerga (UC Berkeley)
Significance: Supports NASA
Project Title: Advanced
PI: F. Scott Porter (GSFC)
Significance: Multi-gigapixel mosaic focal planes with large format CMOS detectors, low noise, small pixels, and broadband UV/O/IR response or visible-blind high-quantum-efficiency near-UV detectors may enable such future strategic missions as the IR/O/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: High Performance FUV, NUV, and UV/Optical CMOS Imagers
PI: Michael Hoenk (JPL)
Significance: This work may retire development risks and satisfy performance and technical requirements for detectors needed for future strategic
Project Title: Development of Advanced Pixelated Si Sensors for the Next Generation of
PI: Ralph Kraft (SAO)
Significance: High-efficiency echelles and full-sized, curved-substrate, flight-like UV gratings may enable spectroscopy for strategic missions such as the IR/O/UV Great Observatory, Probes, Explorers, and sounding-rocket missions
Project Title: UV Spectroscopy for the Next Decade Enabled Through Nanofabrication Techniques
PI: Randall McEntaffer (PSU)
For more information about these technologies visit our Technology Database.
Significance: World-class thin grazing-angle
Project Title:
Next GenerationProject Title:
PI: Zhang, William (GSFC)
Significance: Highest-resolution
Project Title: echnology Maturation for a High-Sensitivity and High-Resolving-Power
PI: Mark Schattenburg (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
Significance: Enhances manufacturability of highest-resolution
Project Title: Readying
PI: Randall Smith (SAO)
Significance: Fast readouts are crucial for large focal plane arrays in future missions
Project Title: Development of Low-Power FPGA-based Readout Electronics for Superconducting Detector Arrays
PI: Philip Mauskopf (ASU)
Significance: Low-noise detectors are crucial for future missions
Project Title: A Single-Photon-Sensing and Photon-Number-Resolving Detector for NASA Missions
PI: Don Figer (RIT)
Significance: CMB polarimetry is crucial for identifying echoes of the Big Bang
Project Title: Superconducting Detectors for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Polarimetry in PICO
PI: Roger O’Brient (JPL/Caltech)
Significance: High-resolution TES microcalorimeters may enable strategic
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Steve Smith (GSFC)
Significance: MMCs offer energy resolution that may enable the next
Project Title: MMC Arrays for
PI: Simon Bandler (GSFC)
Significance: High-quality
Project Title:
PI: Jeff Kolodziejczak (MSFC)
Significance: High-quality
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Panini Singam (MSFC)
Significance: High-quality EUV and
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Stephen Bongiorno (MSFC)
Significance: High-quality
Project Title: Advanced
PI: Danielle Gurgew (MSFC)
Significance: Advanced
Project Title: Toward Fast, Low-Noise, Radiation Tolerant
PI: Mark Bautz (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)
Significance: Advancing time-domain multiplexing (TDM) technology for large-format TES bolometers could enable or enhance the next Far-IR Great Observatory
Project Title: Advancing Readout of Large-Format Far-IR Transition-Edge Sensor Arrays
PI: : Karwan Rostem (GSFC)
Significance: High-density readout may enable large focal planes needed for future missions
Project Title: Advancing High-Density Readout Technology for Superconducting Sensor Arrays for Spaceflight
PI: Larry Ruckman (SLAC)
Significance: High-multiplexing-factor readouts may enable missions such as the next
Project Title: Technology Development for Microwave Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) Multiplexing for the Lynx
PI: Douglas Bennett (NIST)
Significance: This advanced sub-Kelvin cooling technology may enable multiple future strategic missions
Project Title: High-Efficiency Continuous Cooling for Cryogenic Instruments and sub-Kelvin Detectors
PI: James Tuttle (GSFC)
Significance: Ultra-stability and -precision (~10 pm) may enable the next IR/optical/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: Ultra-Stable Structures: Development and Characterization Using Spatial Dynamic Metrology
PI: Babak Saif (GSFC)
Significance: Advanced
Project Title: Development of a Robust, Efficient Process to Produce Scalable, Superconducting Kilopixel
PI: Johannes Staguhn (JHU & GSFC)
Significance: Advanced coatings may enable future far-UV missions
Project Title: High-Performance, Stable, and Scalable UV Aluminum Mirror Coatings Using ALD
PI: John Hennessy (JPL)
Significance: High far-UV reflectance is prevented by oxidation of aluminum mirrors; removing it may enable future far-UV missions
Project Title: E-Beam-Generated Plasma Etching for Developing High-Reflectance Mirrors for Far-Ultraviolet Astronomical Instrument Applications
PI: Manuel Quijada (GSFC)
Significance: Extremely sensitive
Project Title: Ultra-Sensitive Bolometers for
PI: C. Matt Bradford (JPL)
Significance: Further development of this high-resolution far-IR detector technology to higher pixel numbers may enable or enhance future missions
Project Title: Development of High-Resolution
PI: Imran Mehdi (JPL)
Significance: Ultra-low-noise detectors may enable spectroscopy of extrasolar planets
Project Title: Photon-Counting NIR LmAPD Arrays for Ultra-Low Background Space Observations
PI: Michael Bottom (U. of Hawaii)
Significance: This technology may enable required ultra-stability (~10 pm) for the next IR/Optical/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: UV/Optical to Far-IR Mirror and Telescope Technology
PI: H. Philip Stahl (MSFC)
Significance: May enable future UV/optical spectroscopic missions; enables current UV suborbital missions
Project Title: Electron-Beam-Lithography Ruled Gratings for Future UV/Optical Missions: High Efficiency and Low Scatter in the Vacuum UV
PI: Brian Fleming (U. of Colorado)
Significance: May enable future Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) missions, e.g. LiteBIRD
Project Title: Technology Development for LiteBIRD and Other CMB Missions
PI: Adrian T. Lee (UC Berkeley)
Significance: May enable sparse-field multi-object spectroscopy for future strategic and other missions
Project Title: Scalable Microshutter Systems for UV, Visible, and IR Spectroscopy
PI: Matt Greenhouse (GSFC)
Significance: May enable UV/Visible light detection for future strategic missions such as an IR/O/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: High-Performance Sealed-Tube Cross-Strip (XS) Photon-Counting Sensors for UV-Vis Astrophysics Instruments
PI: Oswald Siegmund (UC Berkeley)
Significance: Four-side-buttable low-power readout chips may enable future far-UV missions with large focal planes
Project Title: Large-Format, High-Dynamic-Range UV Detector Using MCPs and Timepix4 Readouts
PI: John Vallerga (UC Berkeley)
Significance: Supports NASA
Project Title: Advanced
PI: F. Scott Porter (GSFC)
Significance: Multi-gigapixel mosaic focal planes with large format CMOS detectors, low noise, small pixels, and broadband UV/O/IR response or visible-blind high-quantum-efficiency near-UV detectors may enable such future strategic missions as the IR/O/UV Great Observatory
Project Title: High Performance FUV, NUV, and UV/Optical CMOS Imagers
PI: Michael Hoenk (JPL)
Significance: This work may retire development risks and satisfy performance and technical requirements for detectors needed for future strategic
Project Title: Development of Advanced Pixelated Si Sensors for the Next Generation of
PI: Ralph Kraft (SAO)
Significance: High-efficiency echelles and full-sized, curved-substrate, flight-like UV gratings may enable spectroscopy for strategic missions such as the IR/O/UV Great Observatory, Probes, Explorers, and sounding-rocket missions
Project Title: UV Spectroscopy for the Next Decade Enabled Through Nanofabrication Techniques
PI: Randall McEntaffer (PSU)