Photosensor
Development at UC Davis
For Homeland Security, Nonproliferation, Particle Astrophysics,
Proton Decay, Neutrino Physics, Dark Mater
Daniel Ferenc and Eckart Lorenz
UC Davis News - articles abut our projects:
UC
Davis News: Spinoffs From Astronomy to Bomb Detection
UC
Davis News: MAGIC Telescope
Finds Microquasar
Aticles from Press
(specifically about our UC Davis group):
(New Scientist, Homeland Defense & Security Monitor,
PHYSORG, POLITECHNICAL INSTITUTE, ADVANCED NANOTECHNOLOGY, What's New
at IEEE in Signal Processing, etc.)
Homeland Defense & Security
Monitor, Vol.8, July 17 2006 Page7: UC-DAVIS SCIENTISTS DEVELOP
METHOD
TO REDUCE COST OF NUKE DETECTORS
NEW
SCIENTIST MAGAZINE: From
issue 2556 of New Scientist magazine, 20 June 2006, page 29:
Astronomy detectors could become nuke
hunters
ADVANCED
NANOTECHNOLOGY: June 20, 2006 Gamma ray telescope could be used to spot
plutonium (title not exactly true)
Traveling-through-the-Wire:
MAGIC finds microquasar
PHYSORG .com Journal
Article, June 2, 2006: MAGIC Telescope Finds Microquasar
PHYSORG.com Journal
Article, August 23, 2005; An older press release abut the
first simultaneous capture of a Gamma-Ray Burst in high energy spectrum
by MAGIC, together with SWIFT at low eneries
IEEE,
What's New at IEEE in Signal Processing, June, Volume 7, Number 6 2006:
MAGIC
TELESCOPE DISCOVERS MICROQUASAR WITHIN EARTH'S GALAXY
POLITECHNICAL INSTITUTE -
'Spying Out Nukes'
Talks - coming soon:
D. Ferenc,
Applied Antineutrino Physics Workshop
D. Ferenc, Recent
Results from the MAGIC Gamma-ray Observatory, 9th Meeting of the
AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD)
Recent
talks:
D. Ferenc
and E. Lorenz, talk at IMAGING 2006 Stockholm, June 23-27 2006 (pdf)
D.
Ferenc and E. Lorenz - SORMA XI presentation (pdf)
The
11th
Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications, May 23-25, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
(SORMA XI), May 23-25, 2006.
<>24–31 May 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA
SPIE talk: Danie
Ferenc,
"The
MAGIC Gamma-Ray Observatory"
SPIE talk: Daniel Ferenc,
"Novel
Photon detectors for Neutrino Astronomy"
D.
Ferenc - presentation (pdf)
HUSEP
meeting - Henderson Underground Science and Engineering, at Stony
Brook, May 3-7 2006
Eckar Lorenz, talk at the Elba Conference, Italy
(pdf)
Eckart Lorenz- talk at LIGHT 06
Eilat,
Israel (pdf)
Eckart Lorenz for Daniel Ferenc- talk at
LIGHT 06 Eilat (pdf)
D.
Ferenc - talk (pdf)
Neutrino Sciences
2005, Neutrino Geophysics, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14-16, 2005
Patents:
U.S.
Patent (ReFerence flat-panel photosensor)
U.S.
Patent (SIMPLE space camera)
U.S. Patent pending (ArcaLux flat-panel photosensor concept) -
currently available only with nondisclosure agreement
Recent
papers:
SPRINGER, Earth, Moon, and Planets, Review
article by D. Ferenc and E. Lorenz, 'Novel photon detectors for
neutrino detectors and telescopes,' ( pdf)
The novel Light Amplifier concept • ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:
Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
Volume
567, Issue 1 ,
1 November 2006,
Pages 166-171
Daniel
Ferenc, Daniel Kranich, Alvin Laille and Eckart
Lorenz
Science
Direct - link
A new method for vacuum sealing of flat-panel photosensors
• ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:
Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,
Volume
567, Issue 1 ,
1 November 2006,
Pages 205-208
Daniel
Ferenc, Andrew Chang,
Leah
Johnson, Daniel Kranich, Alvin
Laille and Eckart Lorenz
Science
Direct - link
Development of novel photon detectors at UC
Davis • ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:
Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume
553, Issues 1-2,
11 November 2005,
Pages 165-171
D. Ferenc, D. Kranich, A. Laille
and E. Lorenz
Abstract
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(309 K)
and sme other papers:
The MAGIC gamma-ray
observatory • ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:
Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume
553, Issues 1-2,
11 November 2005,
Pages 274-281
Daniel Ferenc and for the MAGIC
Collaboration...
Abstract
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(597 K)
Commissioning and first tests of the MAGIC telescope
• ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:
Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume
518, Issues 1-2,
1 February 2004,
Pages 188-192
C. Baixeras , D. Bastieri , C.
Bigongiari , O. Blanch , G. Blanchot , R. Bock , T. Bretz , A.
Chilingarian , J. A. Coarasa , E. Colombo et al.
Abstract
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(225 K)
Evaluation of a new high QE photomultiplier for air Cherenkov
telescopes • ARTICLE
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:
Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume
518, Issues 1-2,
1 February 2004,
Pages 615-618
J. Gebauer , D. Ferenc , D. Kranich , E. Lorenz , M. Merck and R.
Mirzoyan
Abstract
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(379 K)