Astronomy 302
Lecture 8
CCDs
1.0 How CCDs Work
how a CCD shifts charge (from here
http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=129)
this movie shows how CCD pixels are clocked out to the amplifier
from here
http://tonydude.net/NaturalScience100/Topics/3Mind/timages_mind/ccd_s.jpg
schematic diagram of CCD from here
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/camera-image1.html
A real CCD looks like:
The ESO's VLT FORS1 CCD (TK2048EB4-1 backside thinned CCD)
ON the VLT it looks like this at the Cassegrain focus of the VLT (the
CCD is in the small dewar at the bottom)
Subaru's Superme prime focus CCD array (8x(2kx4k))
