BTC’s Recent Scientific Contributions

Welcome to Science Updates, a listing from the most recent of BTC’s contributed scientific papers, conference presentations and contract awards.

 

2025

July 21; Principal Presenter: Henry Chen, Sue Kutcher, Cory Rosemeier, Julie Wen and Sudhir Trivedi; Spectroscopic Performance of All-Inorganic Single Crystal Perovskite CsPbBr3 “Planar” Detector; Sorma West 2025; poster paper.

July 17; Principal Speaker: Yingyun Liu, Feng Jin, Sudhir Trivedi; Title of Presentation: Collecting Open-Source Resources for Hyperspectral Imaging; Forum: 2025 Vision Spectra Conference; web link: https://www.photonics.com/Webinar.aspx?WID=1245.

May1; Principal Investigator: Clayton S.-C. Yang, Sudhir Trivedi, Feng Jin, Ashok Kumar Meivazhagan; Quantum NMR RF Sensing of Phosphorous-31 (31P) and Fluorine-19 (19F) Using Pentacene-Doped Organic Crystals for Precision-Threat Identification; U.S. Army Phase I SBIR award; technical abstract

April 30; Lead Author: Clayton S.-C. Yang; Other BTC Contributing Authors: Feng Jin, Sudhir Trivedi, Journal, “Exploring Anthracene in Laser-Induced Carbon Plasma Studies with Long-Wave Infrared Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Understanding Carbon Microstructure Formation in Space;” web link: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c00001.

 

2024

October 9; Henry Chen, also J-S Kim, P.M. Amarasinghe, J.Q. Wen, S. Kutcher, and S. Trivedi; “Versatile Hg2Br2 scintillation detector for wearable, real-time detection of alpha-particles in drinking water as well as other forms of nuclear radiations with excellent radiation hardness;” SPIE Conference proceedings; https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13151/1315103/Versatile-Hg2Br2-scintillation-detector-for-wearable-real-time-detection-of/10.1117/12.3027256.short.

September 20; Principal Investigator: Feng Jin; Development of Handheld, Optical Speckle-Tolerant Non-Contact Laser Near-Infrared Photoacoustic Imager with Photonics Integrated Circuit; U.S. Army Phase II SBIR award; technical abstract

September 16: Principal Investigator: Feng Jin; Low-Cost Imaging in the MM Wave Region Using Plasma Waves in High Mobility Transistor; U.S. Army Phase II SBIR award; technical abstract

August 28; Principal Investigator: Chen-Chia Wang; Robust, Speckle-Tolerant, Handheld Non-Contact Vital Sign Monitor with Photonics IC; U.S. Army Phase II SBIR Award; technical abstract