2026 INVITED SPEAKERS

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Patrick Anderson, Leonardo DRS - EOIS
"Linear-Mode Photon-Counting Detectors at Leonardo DRS"

Fikri Aqariden, Leonardo DRS
"HgCdTe-based Focal Plane Arrays Using High Density Vertically Integrated Photodiode (HDVIP) Technology"

Seth Bank, The University of Texas at Austin
"Linear and Geiger Mode Digital Alloy Avalanche Photodiodes"

Dan Cremons, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Advances in Planetary Lidars from Short-Wave to Mid-Wave Infrared Using HgCdTe APD Arrays"

Nanditha Dissanayake, Attollo Engineering - SAFRAN DSI
"Low-Cost SWIR/eSWIR Focal Plane Arrays Using Colloidal Quantum Dots and SiGeSn for Active/Passive Applications"

Peter Dreiske, Teledyne Space Imaging
"Teledyne's Pathway from HgCdTe Prototyping to Production in a Statistics-Challenged Environment"

Gregory Forcherio, NSWC Crane
Title coming soon

Anderson Janotti, University of Delaware
Title coming soon

Jesus Gonzalez Montoya, Politecnico di Torino
"A NEGF Perspective on Auger Recombination and Impact Ionization in Type-II Superlattice Infrared Photodetectors"

Kunal Mukherjee, Stanford University
Long Wavelength Luminescence from Heteroepitaxial PbSnSe Alloys on GaAs

Binh-Minh Nguyen, HRL
Title coming soon

Yigit Ozer, ASELSAN
"Characterization of RTS Noise in HgCdTe Infrared Photo Detectors at ASELSAN"

David Rhiger, Raytheon Vision Systems
"A Better Formula for the Electron Affinity of HgCdTe and the Implication for Band Alignment in HgCdTe Heterojunctions"

Johan Rothman, CEA-Leti
Title coming soon

Laurent Rubaldo, Lynred
"From SWIR to VLWIR Sensing: Full Infrared Spectrum Coverage with Advanced LYNRED Technologies"

Michael Scarpulla, University of Utah
"How Do Excess Carriers Affect the Steady-State Thermodynamic Stability of Point Defects?"

Stephanie Tomasulo, NRL
"Metamorphic InAs/InAsSb Superlattice nBn Detectors on GaSb Substrates"

Fisher Yu, University of Arkansas
"GeSn for MWIR"

Zhi-Gang Yu, Sivananthan Laboratories
"Metasurface-Coupled HgCdTe Alloys for Nonreciprocal Optical Limiting"