SPIE Call for Papers - UV Detectors

[Michael Lesser]

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Subject:	Call for papers for UV Detector Physics for Astronomy.
	SPIE Denver, July 18-23, 1999.

Dear Colleague,
The improvement of ultraviolet detectors in sensitivity, format, and energy
resolution is a key to advances in UV astronomy, remote sensing, and in
laboratory, industrial and commercial applications. We are soliciting papers
on advances in UV detectors from basic physical processes through device
development to flight detector performance.
We plan to group the conference into four sessions: Flight  mission
detectors, photoemissive devices, photoconductive and photovoltaic devices,
and energy-resolving detectors.
Please look at the Call for Papers below for a more detailed description of
conference topics.
We encourage you to join us as a contributor in Denver, Colorado, in 1999
for UV Detector Physics  for Astronomy.  Please note that the official SPIE
abstract deadline is December 21, 1998.  However, we will continue to accept
abstract submissions until JANUARY 8, 1999.  You will find the Call for
Papers conveniently attached at the end of this letter.

Bruce Woodgate and Randy Kimble,
Chairs: UV Detector Physics for Astronomy.

Bruce Woodgate (301) 286-5401
Randy Kimble   (301) 286-5783
Code 681,
NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD 20771.
Fax: (301) 286-1753
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Call For Papers
UV Detector Physics for Astronomy (sd119)
Conference Chairs: Bruce E. Woodgate, Randy A. Kimble,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.
Program Committee: Charles L. Joseph, Rutgers Univ.; Michael P. Lesser,
Steward Observatory/Univ. of Arizona; Samuel Harvey Moseley, David Brent
Mott, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr.
Papers are welcome on all aspects of UV detectors for astronomy, and on
advances in adjacent fields, particularly on work leading to improvements in
sensitivity, larger formats, lower noise, and energy resolution.  Detectors
are required for both imaging and spectroscopy. We anticipate having
sessions on energy-resolving detectors, photoemissive devices,
photoconductive and photovoltaic devices, and on the status of detectors for
flight missions.
Examples of specific improvements desired include but are not limited to the
following:
* energy-resolving detectors, including superconducting tunneling junctions,
transition edge sensors and other methods; architectures for large formats,
and progress and performance information on the devices and their component
technologies, such as sensor materials and single electron transistors
* photoemissive devices, improvements in quantum efficiency, microchannel
plate improvements, decrease in noise including vetoing of cosmic ray
effects including Cerenkov radiation in windows, and increases in number of
pixels
* photoconductive and photovoltaic devices, improvements in quantum
efficiency and its spatial uniformity, reduction in noise such as readout
noise, and methods to reduce longer wavelength contamination such as
wideband gap materials and efficient filters
* flight detector developments: descriptions of the problems solved and
those remaining.


Conferences in this track:
Program on X-Ray Astronomy
* SD105 X-Ray Optics, Instruments, and Missions II
* SD114 EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy X
* SD119 UV Detectors for Astronomy
* SD115 Ultraviolet and X-Ray Spectroscopy and Polarimetry III

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For more information on the Annual Meeting or a complete listing of all
conferences please go to our SPIE Web site:
www.spie.org/info/annualmeeting.html
INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS
Please choose only one of the following options and send by the due date:
SPIE WEB - Complete the convenient form found on the SPIE Web site:
www.spie.org/forms/sd99_submission_form.html
or E-MAIL each abstract separately to: abstracts at spie.org in ASCII text (not
encoded) format. IMPORTANT: to ensure receipt and proper processing of your
abstract, the Subject line must include only the following:
SUBJECT:	SD119 Woodgate/Kimble

or MAIL three copies of your abstract to:
OPTICAL SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, AND INSTRUMENTATION
SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA  98227-0010 USA
Shipping Address: 1000 20th St., Bellingham, WA 98225 USA
Telephone 360/676-3290
or FAX one copy to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (send each abstract separately).



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