Charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor
Sensor de imagen CCD
- Date
- 1969 · confidence high
- Place
- Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Willard Boyle and George Smith (Bell Labs); Nobel Prize in Physics 2009
- People
- 👤 George Smith1941–👤 Willard Boyle1924–2011
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A chip that converts light into electrical charges shifted row by row to form a digital image. It was the electronic eye of cameras, telescopes and scanners for three decades.
What it led to
- Digital photography and the end of chemical film
- Modern astronomy (Hubble) and digital medical imaging
- Video surveillance and facial recognition
Built on
- MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor)1959
- silicon photodiode