Curriculum Vitae

Education:

 

Ph.D. 1997 (Physics) University of Wisconsin, Madison

B.S. 1990 (Physics, Computer Science) University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

 

Experience:

 

2001 - Present: Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross    

1997 - 2001: Research Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 

 

 

Selected Publications:

 

T. Narita, P. Bloser, J. Grindlay, J. Jenkins, and W. Yao, 1999, Proc. of SPIE, 3768, 55, Development of IMARAD CZT Detectors with PIN Contacts

P.F. Bloser, T. Narita, J. Jenkins, and J. Grindlay, 2000, Proc. of SPIE, 4140, 237, CZT Detector and Shield for Hard X-ray Astronomy Balloon Flight

T. Narita, P. Bloser, J. Grindlay, and J. Jenkins, 2000, Proc. of SPIE, 4141, 89, Development of Gold Contacted Flip Chip Detectors with IMARAD CZT

T. Narita, J. Grindlay, and D. Barret, 2001, Astrophys. J., 547, 420, ASCA Observation of GX 354-0 and KS 1731-260

P.F. Bloser, T. Narita, J. Jenkins, M. Perrin, R. Murray, and J. Grindlay, 2002, Proc. of SPIE, 4497, 88, Balloon Flight Background Measurement with Actively Shielded Planar versus Imaging CZT Detectors

T. Narita, J. Grindlay, J. Jenkins, M. Perrin, D. Marone, R. Murray, and B. Connell, 2002, Proc. of SPIE, 4497, 79, Design and Preliminary Tests of a Prototype CZT Imaging Array and Coded Aperture Telescope

P.F. Bloser, Y. Chou, J. Grindlay, T. Narita, and G. Monnelly, 2002, Astroparticle Physics, 17, 393, Development of an XSPEC-Based Spectral Analysis System for the Coded-Aperture Hard X-ray Balloon Payload EXITE2

J.A. Jenkins, T. Narita, J. Grindlay, P. Bloser, C. Stahle, B. Parker, and S. Barthelmy, 2003, Proc. of SPIE, 4851, 866, Background Measurements from Balloon-born Imaging CdZnTe Detectors

T. Narita, P. Bloser, Y. Chou, and J. Grindlay, 2003, Astrophys. J, 593, 1007, X-ray Dip Monitoring of XB 1916-053

J. Hong, J. Grindlay, E. Bellm, and T. Narita, 2004, Proc. of SPIE, 5165, 54, Cathode Depth Sensing in CZT Detectors

T. Narita, J. Grindlay, J. Hong, and F. Niestemski, 2004, Proc. of SPIE, 5165, 542, Anode Readout for Pixellated CZT Detectors

J. Grindlay, Y. Chou, P. Bloser, and T. Narita, 2005, Astrophys. J., 618, 852, EXITE2 Observation of SIGMA Source GRS 1227+025

Y. Chou, P. Bloser, J. Grindlay, and T. Narita, 2005, Astrophys. J., 618, 856, Observations of Cygnus X-1 with the EXITE2 Hard X-ray Balloon Payload

S. Vadawale, J. Hong, P. Williams, M. Zhang, E. Bellm, J. Grindlay, W. Craig, T. Narita, B. Parker, C. Stahle, and F. Yan, 2004, Proc. of SPIE, 5540, 22, Multipixel Characterization of Imaging CZT Detectors for Hard X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy

J. Hong, S. Vadawale, M. Zhang, E. Bellm, J. Grindlay, and T. Narita, 2004, Proc. of SPIE, 5540, 62, Laboratory Coded-Aperture  Imaging Experiments: Radial Hole Mask and Depth Sensitive CZT Detectors

J. Macri, B. Donmez, M. Widholm, L.-A. Hamel, M. Julien, T. Narita, J. Ryan, and M. McConnell, 2004 Proc. of SPIE, 5501, 208, Single-sided CZT strip detectors

T. Narita, J. Hong, and J. Grindlay, 2005, Proc. of SPIE, 5898, 66, Hard X-ray Polarimetry with EXIST

J. Legere, P. Bloser, J. Macri, M. McConnell, T. Narita, J. Ryan, 2005, Proc. of SPIE, 5898, 401, Developing a Compton Polarimeter to Measure Polarization of Hard X-rays in the 50-300 keV Energy Range

B. Donmez, J. Macri, M. McConnell, J. Ryan, M. Widholm, T. Narita, L. Hamel, 2005, Proc. of SPIE, 5922, 62,  Further Studies of Single-Sided Charge-Sharing CZT Strip Detectors