At the heart of today’s digital imaging devices are charge-coupled devices (CCD). A type of semiconductor that’s sensitive to light, a CCD consists of a 2-D array of individual elements, each ...

Placing a CCD array at the prime focus of a telescope or observatory is a surefire way to get an outstanding image; a technique that's been in use for well over 100 years. But is it possible to ...

A CCD is an array of capacitors, which store electric charge. Computer software reads out the charge of each, which corresponds to how much light fell on each.

In CCD devices, an array of millions of light-sensitive picture elements, or pixels, spans the surface of the sensor. After exposure to light, the accumulated charge over the entire CCD pixel array is ...

'Revolutionary' is used too often to describe advances in science. When applied to the invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD) array by Willard Boyle and George Smith, however, it is not far ...

The sensor area matches the existing 2/3″ optical format that’s common with video cameras so the new CCD array will work with existing video-camera lenses and the sensor array’s packaging is the same ...

B&W Tek, Inc. is proudly shipping the i-trometer series CCD array, low cost spectrometers. Using a high UV-NIR response wide dynamic range back-thinned CCD array with a low stray light optical bench, ...

LANSIS cameras represent the latest in CCD array detector technology specifically tailored to OEMs. Michael Case, product manager at Teledyne Princeton Instruments notes, “LANSIS camera ...

Quest™ U—a linear CCD array spectrometer from B&W Tek—has been improved for UV performance through a low stray light optical bench. The spectrometer features an integrated 16-bit digitizer, a 2048 ...

QE65000 Spectrometer Has Back-thinned CCD Detector for Low-Light Level Applications. Dunedin, Fla., November 2006 - The QE65000 from Ocean Optics is a high-sensitivity, scientific-grade spectrometer ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has been successfully launched, with the goal of making the largest, most precise three dimensional map of the Milky Way.