Janesick, James, Andrews, James, Tower, John, Grygon, Mark, Elliott, Tom, Cheng, John, Lesser, Michael, Pinter, Jeff, 2007 Fundamental performance differences between CMOS and CCD imagers: Part II, Proc. SPIE 6690, 3, (Instrumentation) Zacharias, N., Dorland, B., Bredthauer, R., Boggs, K., Bredthauer, G., Lesser, M., 2007 Realization and application of a 111 million pixel backside-illuminated detector and camera, Proc. SPIE 6690, 8, (Instrumentation) S.K. Randall, E.M. Green, V. van Grootel, G. Fontaine, S. Charpinet, M. Lesser, P. Brassard, T. Sugimoto, P. Chayer, A. Fay P. Wroblewski, M. Daniel, S. Story, and T. Fitzgerald, 2007 Observations and asteroseismic analysis of the rapidly pulsating hot B subdwarf A&A 476, 1317-1329 (Instrumentation)
Lesser, Bridges, Ouellette, Lappin, Walls, and James at the Imaging Technology Laboratory have produced CCD detectors for many institutions, including the University of Arizona, DALSA, Inc., Semiconductor Technology Associates, Inc., WIYN, Astronomical Research Cameras, Inc., LBNL, Sarnoff, Inc., and LSST. (Instrumentation) Lesser, graduate student Sumedha Uppnor, and the ITL staff continued development of new hybridization technology developments under an NASA-funded research grant. Developments this year include a new hybridization bonder for high pressure and multiple device bonding, large area bonding to ceramics, and analysis of alternative materials for high thermal conductivity. (Instrumentation) Lesser and the ITL staff developed a new process to thin non-epitaxial silicon in order to achieve optimal thickness for specific scientific projects. The main effort was focused on producing 100 micron thick detectors for enhanced red sensitivity, of particular interest to LSST. (Instrumentation)