Dr Nicholas F Cothard

NASA Postdoc Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center. Applied Physics PhD from Cornell.

  • 3D Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024, Yokohama, Japan (June 2024, Slides)

  • Kilopixel Silicon Microlens Arrays for PRIMA Detector Arrays, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024, Yokohama, Japan (June 2024, Slides)

  • NGC 4258: A Laboratory for AGN and Star Formation Impacts on the ISM, The 243rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, New Orleans, LA (January 2024, poster PDF)

  • Monolithic Kilopixel Silicon Microlens Arrays for Future Far-Infrared Observatories, Low Temperature Detectors 20, Daejeon, South Korea (July 2023, poster PDF)

  • Parallel Plate Capacitor Aluminum KIDs for Future Far-Infrared Space-Based Observatories, Low Temperature Detectors 20, Daejeon, South Korea (July 2023, poster PDF)

  • NGC 4258: A Laboratory for AGN and Star Formation Impacts on the ISM, James Web Space Telescope First Year of Science Conference, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD (September 2023, poster PDF)

  • Parallel plate capacitor TiN KID array development for the Balloon Experiment for Galactic Infrared Science, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022, Montreal, Canada (July 2022, poster PDF)

  • Science and Detector Technology Development for the PRIMA Far-IR Probe Concept, NASA GSFC Science & Exploration Directorate Director’s Seminar, Greenbelt, MD (June 2022 invited talk)

  • Comparing complex impedance and bias step measurements of Simons Observatory transition edge sensors, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020, Remote Conference (December 2020 poster PDF)

  • The Design of The CCAT-prime Epoch of Reionization Spectrometer Instrument, Low Temperature Detectors 18, Milan, Italy (July 2019, poster PDF)

  • Optimizing the efficiency of Fabry-Perot interferometers with silicon-substrate mirrors, SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018, Austin, TX (June 2018, poster PDF)

  • Sidelobe measurements and models for large aperture CMB experiments, PICO Science Meeting, University of Minnesota (May 2018 poster PDF)

  • Development of Single and Double Layer Anti-Reflection Coatings for Astronomical Instruments, Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility Annual Meetings, Ithaca, NY (August 2016, 2017, and 2018 posters)

  • Evolution of Phase Space Sensitivity for Energetic Ion Loss Measurements in DIII-D, American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics 56th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (October 2014, poster)

  • The Search for Dirac Magnetic Monopoles with the CDF II Detector, Rochester Symposium for Physics Students, Rochester, NY (April 2013, poster)