Infrared Detector Technology Development

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on the development of emerging infrared detector technologies for NASA's Earth Science and Planetary Science missions. The research involves pursuing high performance infrared detector systems that promise extensions in sensitivity, resolution, and array size while simultaneously decreasing their size, weight, power requirements, and cost. Research areas include work on long-wavelength infrared materials, heterostructures, digital read out integrated circuits, avalanche photodiodes for single photon counting, and integration of nanostructured flat lens technology and metasurface components into focal plane arrays.