Biographical Sketch:
Satish Dhawan is one of the longest-serving members of the Yale Physics Department, with more than 55 years of service to Yale. He has been a member of Yale Physics since 1967, first as an electrical engineer and then as a research scientist.
Dhawan’s work has focused on research and development of instrumentation systems for experiments in medium and high energy physics.
He has made numerous contributions to the work of the high energy physics group at Yale, and most recently to the development of radiation hard powering schemes for detector front end electronics for the Large Hadron Collider and the International Linear Collider.
Research:
Education:
Ph.D., University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1984
Honors & Awards:
During his career, Dhawan has served on numerous committees and received the IEEE Award “For Outstanding Achievement Through Standards”. He has held several grants and was involved in several projects funded through the Department of Energy’s Small Business Innovation Research program.
Selected Publications:
- Buck Converter Development for the Inner Detector Environment of the SLHC Upgrade, to be published.
- Detector Powering in the 21st Century - Why stay stuck with the Good old 20th Century methods?, Physics Procedia 37 (2012) pages 181–189.
- Commercial Buck Converters and Custom Coil Development for the Atlas Inner Detector Upgrade, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, VOL. 57, NO. 2, APRIL 2010 pages 456-462.
- Progress on DC-DC Converters for Si Tracker for the sLHC Upgrade, Twepp 2009 (Paris) Conference Proceedings.
- Commercial-Off-the-Shelf DC-DC Converters for High Energy Physics Detectors for the sLHC Upgrade, IEEE RT 2009 (Beijing) Conference Proceedings.
- Radiation Resistant DC- DC Power Conversion with Voltage Ratios > 10 Capable of Operating in High Magnetic Field for LHC Upgrade Detectors, Twepp 2008 (Naxos) Conference Proceedings.
- Design Considerations for High Step-Down ratio Buck Regulators, Twepp 2008 (Naxos) Conference Proceedings.
- High Radiation Resistant DC-DC Converter Regulators for use in Magnetic fields for LHC High Luminosity Silicon Trackers, Twepp 2007 (Prague) Conference Proceedings.
- Ideas on DC-DC Converters for Delivery of Low Voltage and High Currents for the SLHC/ILC Detector Electronics in Magnetic field and Radiation environments, LECC 2006 (Valencia) Conference Proceedings.
- INSPIRE publications