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C. Thayer is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Imaging spectrometer & Noise (electronics). The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 9 publications.
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Measurement and simulation of charge diffusion in a small-pixel charge-coupled device
Beverly LaMarr,Gregory Y. Prigozhin,Eric N. Miller,C. Thayer,Marshall W. Bautz,Richard S. Foster,Catherine E. Grant,Andrew Malonis,Barry E. Burke,Michael Cooper,Kevan Donlon,Christopher W. Leitz +11 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors measured the size distributions of charge packets produced by 5.9 and 1.25 keV x-rays in a fully depleted back-illuminated CCD with a thickness of 50 cm and pixel size of 8 cm.
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The TESS camera: modeling and measurements with deep depletion devices
Deborah F. Woods,Roland Vanderspek,Robert MacDonald,Edward H. Morgan,Joel Villasenor,C. Thayer,Barry E. Burke,Christian Chesbrough,Michael P. Chrisp,Kristin Clark,G. Furesz,Alexandria Gonzales,Tam Nguyen,Gregory Y. Prigozhin,Brian C. Primeau,George R. Ricker,Timothy Sauerwein,Vyshnavi Suntharalingam +17 more
TL;DR: In this article, a combination of optical ray tracing in Zemax and simulations in Matlab is used to account for the interaction of incoming photons with the 100 μm silicon layer.
Testing and characterization of the TESS CCDs
C. Thayer,J. Villasenor,Steven E. Kissel,Beverly LaMarr,Eric R. Morgan,Gregory Y. Prigozhin,I. Prigozhin,George R. Ricker,T. Sauerwein,Vyshnavi Suntharalingam,Roland Vanderspek,Deborah F. Woods +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the hardware and methodology that were developed for testing and characterizing individual CCID-80s for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission.
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Radiation testing of a small pixel, CMOS compatible CCD
Beverly LaMarr,Marshall W. Bautz,R. Foster,Catherine E. Grant,Andrew Malonis,Eric D. Miller,Gregory Y. Prigozhin,C. Thayer +7 more
- 13 Dec 2020
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of proton exposure on the spectral performance, dark current and charge transfer effciency of an MIT Lincoln Lab CCID93 CCD were investigated and the 40 MeV dose was chosen to represent typical on orbit exposure.
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Single Event Effects Testing of a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Analog-To-Digital Converter in a Camera Application
Michael J. Campola,C. Thayer,John Doty,Edward P. Wilcox +3 more
- 11 Jul 2016
TL;DR: Single event effect data is presented on the Analog Devices AD7984 to showcase application-specific results for the commercial part in its intended application.