Jorge Jimenez - ASTEROID: An astronomy infrared detector made in Europe

Wednesday 29 Nov 2017, 13:00 → 14:00 Europe/Madrid

Seminar (IFAE)

Michael Leyton (IFAE), Stefano Terzo (IFAE)

ASTEROID (Astronomy European Infrared Detector) is a H2020 European collaboration between research institutions and industrial partners to develop from scratch a large infrared focal plane array. Today large dimension infrared focal plane arrays (IR FPA) are only available from a US company and are export restricted by ITAR, thus Europe is until today US dependent for large format arrays in NIR and SWIR either for space or ground-based use. The main objective of the ASTEROID project is thus to extend the dimension of high performance infrared FPA that can be manufactured in Europe to the dimensions equivalent to that leading the market: a 15μm pixel pitch FPA of 2048 x 2048 pixels. On this presentation, I will comment some of the motivations for such a development and roughly introduce some NIR and SWIR infrared detectors concepts, beside comment the tasks to be performed at IFAE as part of its work package.