Sarath Gunapala
Senior Research Scientist and Group Supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He works primarily in Quantum Well Infrared Photo Detecting. He is also a Board Member of QWIP Technologies LLC.
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Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) is a digital sensor that is being utilised in numerous ways, not only by scientists but also by astronomers, meteorologists, firemen, and doctors. Among other things, QWIP cameras are used to detect smog, monitor volcanoes, detect both skin and breast cancer (at many institutions, including the University of Southern California's Children's Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University), and to find “hot spots” in forest fires.
"This technology will revolutionize the way we develop new remote sensing instruments," said team leader Dr. Sarath Gunapala and added; "As a result of all our research work in last decade, QWIP technology has culminated as the most favorable highly sensitive multi-band large format focal plane array technology in long-wavelength infrared region."
Dr. Gunapala has introduced to the world, the "640x512 PixZls Long-Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector (QDIP) Focal Plane Array Camera".
He currently holds over 17 patents, most relating to his work with QWIP and QSIP (Quantum Structured Infrared Photodetector).
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