I am a principal research scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astropysics and Space Research (CSR) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before coming to MIT I used to design CCDs (Charge Coupled Devices)
and other VLSI for
quite a while. My primary research interests now are soft X-rays, solid state
X-ray and gamma-ray sensors with particular interest in X-ray CCDs and Active Pixel Sensors.
The big projects I was involved with (and still am) are:
ACIS (which stands for Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer
flown on board Chandra X-ray Observatory ),
ASCA - a Japanese X-ray satellite
(called Astro-D in a development stage),
HETE
(High Energy Transient Experiment), and SUZAKU (another Japanese X-ray satellite for which
our group built a CCD focal plane).
Here is the list of some of my publications,
some of my conference talks,
and internal memos,
Many of them can
be found on-line. I also hold 10 patents issued
in Russia and USA for various CCD and MOS technology innovations.
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