Enabling technologies for astrophysics, planetary science, and terrestrial applications

Silicon imagers are ubiquitous in the consumer landscape. With nanoscale engineering, they can become high performance scientific imagers with high sensitivity and extended spectral range response, enabling discoveries and capabilities in space exploration. This allows an opportunity to leverage the enormous investment in these imagers. In this plenary talk, Dr. Shouleh Nikzad will describe how surface engineering enables high performance in detectors, filters, and coating technologies which in turn could enable discoveries in future space missions ranging from CubeSats to flagship. She will also discuss the synergistic way these technologies can be used for terrestrial applications and in particular medical applications.