2026 INVITED SPEAKERS

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"

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

Gregory Forcherio, NSWC Crane
Title coming soon

Kunal Mukherjee, Stanford University
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"

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

Eric Tervo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title coming soon

Stephanie Tomasulo, NRL
Title coming soon

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