Jake McCoy
- T. B. Chen, B.i Liu, J. A. McCoy, et al., "Development of broadband high efficiency Mid-IR gratings for high-energy ultrafast lasers", Optical Materials Express, vol. 14, issue 5, pp. 1336-1348, Apr. 2024.
- R. C. McCurdy, D. M. Miles, J. A. McCoy, et al., “Diffraction efficiency of a small-period astronomical x-ray reflection grating fabricated using thermally activated selective topography equilibration”, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1–19, Nov. 2020
- J. A. McCoy, M. A. Verschuuren, D. M. Miles, et al., “X-ray verification of sol-gel resist shrinkage in substrate-conformal imprint lithography for a replicated blazed reflection grating”, OSA Continuum, vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 3141–3156, Nov. 2020
- J. A. McCoy, R. L. McEntaffer, and D. M. Miles, “Extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray diffraction efficiency of a blazed reflection grating fabricated by thermally activated selective topography equilibration”, ApJ, vol. 891, no. 2, p. 114, Mar. 2020
- T. Rogers, R. McEntaffer, J. McCoy, et al., “Induced X-ray fluorescence background for high-voltage space based detectors”, Experimental Astronomy, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 1–20, Jan. 2020
- D. M. Miles, S. V. Hull, T. B. Schultz, et al., “Water Recovery X-Ray Rocket grating spectrometer”, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, vol. 5, no. 4, p. 044 006, Oct. 2019
- D. M. Miles, J. A. McCoy, R. L. McEntaffer, et al., “Fabrication and diffraction efficiency of a large-format, replicated x-ray reflection grating”, ApJ, vol. 869, no. 2, p. 95, Dec. 2018
- J. A. McCoy, R. L. McEntaffer, and C. Eichfeld, “Fabrication of astronomical x-ray reflection gratings using thermally activated selective topography equilibration”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B: Nanotechnology and Microelectronics, vol. 36, no. 6, Nov. 2018
- T. Rogers, R. McEntaffer, T. Schultz, et al., “Gaseous electron multiplier gain characteristics using low-pressure Ar/CO2”, Experimental Astronomy, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 201–210, Apr. 2017
- J. McCoy, T. Schultz, J. Tutt, et al., “A Primer for Telemetry Interfacing in Accordance with NASA Standards Using Low Cost FPGAs”, Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation, vol. 5, no. 1, 1640002, p. 1 640 002, Dec. 2016
- B. C. O'Meara, A. N. Higley, J. A. McCoy, et al., “An updated alignment strategy for the off-plane grating rocket experiment (OGRE)”, in Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV, R. Navarro, and R. Jedamzik, Eds., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 13100, SPIE, 2024, pp. 131001Y
- A. Higley, J. McCoy, R. McEntaffer, et al., “Characterizing X-ray Optics for OGRE and its Pathfinder Mission”, in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, and K. Nakazawa, Eds., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 13093, SPIE, 2024, pp. 1309351
- D. M. Miles, R. McCurdy, J. H. Tutt, et al., “The Rockets for Extended-source X-ray Spectroscopy: instrument updates, results from the first flight, and future outlook”, in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, and K. Nakazawa, Eds., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 13093, SPIE, 2024, pp. 1309373
- R. C. McCurdy, R. L. McEntaffer, J. A. McCoy, et al., “Fabrication and diffraction efficiency of a 160-nm period x-ray reflection grating produced using thermally activated selective topography equilibration”, in Optics for EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Astronomy IX, S. L. O’Dell and G. Pareschi, Eds., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 11119, SPIE, 2019, pp. 302–310
- D. M. Miles, R. L. McEntaffer, B. D. Donovan, et al., “Grating design for the Water Recovery X-ray Rocket”, in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, J.-W. A. den Herder, S. Nikzad, and K. Nakazawa, Eds., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 10699, SPIE, 2018, pp. 1558–1565
- M. A. Verschuuren, J. McCoy, R. P. Huber, et al., “AutoSCIL 200mm tooling in production, x-ray optics, and cell growth templates”, in Novel Patterning Technologies 2018, E. M. Panning, Ed., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 10584, SPIE, 2018, pp. 185–197
- D. M. Miles, R. L. McEntaffer, T. B. Schultz, et al., “An introduction to the water recovery x-ray rocket”, in UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XX, O. H. Siegmund, Ed., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 10397, SPIE, 2017, pp. 205–212
- J. McCoy, R. McEntaffer, and C. DeRoo, “New lithographic techniques for x-ray spectroscopy”, in Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, J.-W. A. den Herder, T. Takahashi, and M. Bautz, Eds., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 9905, SPIE, 2016, pp. 613–622
- T. Rogers, T. Schultz, J. McCoy, et al., “First results from the OGRESS sounding rocket payload”, in UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIX, O. H. Siegmund, Ed., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 9601, SPIE, 2015, pp. 13–24
- J. McCoy, T. Schultz, J. Tutt, et al., “A primer for telemetry interfacing in accordance with NASA standards using low cost FPGAs”, in UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XIX, O. H. Siegmund, Ed., International Society for Optics and Photonics, vol. 9601, SPIE, 2015, pp. 13–24
The Pennsylvania State University
- Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics (2021): Applied Nanofabrication for X-ray Grating Spectroscopy (Advisor: Randall McEntaffer)
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- B.Sc. in Astronomy, Physics (2012)