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Digital photography is born

Digital photography is born Milestones each other and applying electric M ILEST ONE 14 voltages they could induce the charge to move from one to the next. In this way, packets of charge could be passed down a linear array of ‘charge- coupled’ MOS capacitors, mimicking the operation of a bubble array. Ironically, although the operation of the device was a success, neither it nor bubble memory ever took off as a means of storing digital information. But it did not take long for Boyle and Smith to realize that it might have other uses. At around the same time, Bell Laboratories was working hard to develop the Picturephone, which was a crude videoconferencing sys- tem. The commercial cathode-ray- tube cameras used were notoriously unreliable and a more dependable alternative was eagerly sought. The CCD provided the solution. The simplicity of fabricating large sensor arrays, combined with the linear optical response to even the most faint light sources, has meant that 40 years after their invention they are still used in large-scale opti- cal telescopes, including the Hubble The CCD inventors, Willard ‘Revolutionary’ is used too often worked by injecting magnetic space telescope. It has also allowed Boyle (left) and George to describe http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Digital photography is born

Gerstner, Ed
Nature Materials , Volume 9 (1) – May 1, 2010
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Digital photography is born

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Milestones each other and applying electric M ILEST ONE 14 voltages they could induce the charge to move from one to the next. In this way, packets of charge could be passed down a linear array of ‘charge- coupled’ MOS capacitors, mimicking the operation of a bubble array. Ironically, although the operation of the device was a success, neither it nor bubble memory ever took off as a means of storing digital information. But it did not take long for Boyle and Smith to realize that...
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2010 by Nature Publishing Group
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Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
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1476-1122
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1476-4660
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10.1038/nmat2651
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Abstract

Milestones each other and applying electric M ILEST ONE 14 voltages they could induce the charge to move from one to the next. In this way, packets of charge could be passed down a linear array of ‘charge- coupled’ MOS capacitors, mimicking the operation of a bubble array. Ironically, although the operation of the device was a success, neither it nor bubble memory ever took off as a means of storing digital information. But it did not take long for Boyle and Smith to realize that it might have other uses. At around the same time, Bell Laboratories was working hard to develop the Picturephone, which was a crude videoconferencing sys- tem. The commercial cathode-ray- tube cameras used were notoriously unreliable and a more dependable alternative was eagerly sought. The CCD provided the solution. The simplicity of fabricating large sensor arrays, combined with the linear optical response to even the most faint light sources, has meant that 40 years after their invention they are still used in large-scale opti- cal telescopes, including the Hubble The CCD inventors, Willard ‘Revolutionary’ is used too often worked by injecting magnetic space telescope. It has also allowed Boyle (left) and George to describe

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Published: May 1, 2010

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