NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is looking for partnerships with United States companies, universities, and other government agencies that are developing detectors and systems.  The DCL's extensive experience and expertise in characterizing advanced detector arrays and systems can be leveraged from the design phase and through the entire product development lifecycle.

Standard Characterization Tests

• Readout, CDS, and total noise
• Dark current
• Relative and absolute quantum efficiency
• Conversion and electronic gain
• Flat-field optical illumination and spot scans (for intra pixel sensitivity)
• Spatial resolution and MTF (including PSF and low-level halo)
• CCD charge transfer efficiency using 55Fe (radioactive isotope) and other techniques
• Crosstalk and inter-pixel capacitance
• Linearity and well depth
• Image persistence
• Stability of detector characteristics
• General-purpose reconfigurable detector array control and data acquisition electronics including timing pattern generation and optimization
• Ultra-low background testing in the infrared with specially built and instrumented test cryostats
• Extensive data analysis capabilities
• Flight qualification testing

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