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Richard Bradley, Adjunct Professor

Email: rbradley@nrao.edu
Phone: (434) 296-0291
Fax: (434) 296-0324
Office: NRAO CDL
Address:
   NRAO Technology Center
   1180 Boxwood Estate Road
   Charlottesville, VA 22903-4608

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Curriculum Vitae
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering University of Virginia (1992)
M.S., Electrical Engineering Carnegie-Mellon University (1983)
B.S., Electrical Engineering Carnegie-Mellon University (1982)
Presently:
Research Professor and Lecturer, Astronomy UVa
Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering UVa
Research Engineer, NRAO, Central Development lab

Research Interests
Scientific instrumentation
Low noise electronics
Antenna design
Signal processing
Galaxy dynamics
Cosmology
Particle physics

Recent Research Assistants
Nicole Gugliucci (Astronomy)
Paul Ries (Astronomy)
Alok Singhal (Astronomy)
Kamaljeet S. Saini (EE)

Courses Recently Taught
Astronomy 314 - Introduction to Radio Astronomy
Astronomy 535 - Radio Astronomy Instrumentation
Engineering 203 - Electrical Science



Selected Recent Papers and Preprints

Bradley, R., Parashare, C., White, S. M., and Bastian, T. S. "Instrument Development for the Green Bank Solar Radio Burst Spectrometer (GB/SRBS)," ASP Conference Series, Vol. 345, 2005.

Stewart, K. P., Hicks, B. C., Crane, P. C., Kassim, N. E., MacDowall, R. J., Bradley, R., and Erickson, W. C. "Observations of Solar Radio Bursts with NRL LWA Antenna Prototypes," ASP Conference Series, Vol. 345, 2005.

White, S. M., Bastian, T. S., Bradley, R., Parashare, C., and Wye, L "Low-Frequency Solar Radio Bursts from Green Bank," ASP Conference Series, Vol. 345, 2005.

Bradley, R., J. Clarke, D. Kinion, S. Matsuki, M. Muck, L. Rosenberg, P. Sikivie, and K. van Bibber. "Microwave Cavity Searches for Dark Matter Axions," Reviews of Modern Physics, 2002.

Kamaljeet S. Saini, Richard F. Bradley, Gerhard S. Schoenthal, Thomas W. Crowe and William L. Bishop, "A Novel GaAs-Quartz based Integrated 80/240 GHz Frequency Tripler'', Ninth International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, October 2001.

Asztalos, S., E. Daw, H. Peng, L. Rosenberg, C. Hagmann, D. Kinion, W. Stoeffl, K. van Bibber, P. Sikivie, N. Sullivan, D. Tanner, F. Nezrick, M. Turner, D. Moltz, J. Powell, M-O. Andre, J. Clarke, M. Muck, R. Bradley. "Large-Scale Microwave Cavity Search for Dark-Matter Axions, Physical Review D, vol. 64, 093002-1-28, 2001.

Bradley, R. F. and J. R. Fisher. "Engineering an Adaptive RFI Canceling System for Radio Astronomy,"XXVI General Assembly of the Intl. Union of Radio Science Conf. Digest, Toronto, Canada, Aug. 13-21, p. 831, 1999.

Bradley, R. F., "Cryogenic, Low Noise, Balanced Amplifiers for 300-1200 MHz Band Using Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistors," (invited), Nuclear Physics B: Proceedings Supplemental, vol. 72, pp. 137-144, 1999.

Barnbaum, C. and R.F. Bradley. "A New Approach to Interference Excision in Radio Astronomy: Real Time Adaptive Cancellation," Astronomical Journal, vol. 115, pp. 2598-2614, Nov. 1998.

Daw, E. and R. F. Bradley. "Effect of High Magnetic Fields on the Noise Temperature of a HFET Low-Noise Amplifier," J. Applied Physics, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 1925-1929, Aug 15, 1997.

Payne, J.M., D. Parker, and R.F. Bradley. "A Rangefinder with Fast Multiple Range Capability," Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 3311-3316, June, 1992.


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