Five Decades of Microelectronics and Detector Development at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

In this seminar Dr. Murzy Jhabvala describes the history of microelectronics and detector development at the Goddard Space Flight Center from the 1960s to the present day and the relation to various NASA missions — from his perspective. Topics include the first PMOS, CMOS and CCD integrated circuits, the early single element detectors, evolution of GaAs detector arrays and infrared imaging, a variety of experiments to validate advanced technologies for use in NASA space-flight missions and some examples of related technology transfer. Some of the missions discussed that implemented these technologies include the Cosmic Background Explorer, Spitzer Space Telescope, Gravity Probe-B, James Webb Space Telescope, Landsat 8 and airborne and ground-based astronomy experiments.