Nobel Prize in Physics

Cap'n Jack said:
Dr Charles K. Kao for fiber optics that transmit lots of data

Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for the CCD (charge coupled device)- used in many digital cameras.

These are tied together..use the CCD to take a picture and post it to Facebook or Flickr over a fiberoptic network.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/06/nobel.physics/index.html
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I think it's interesting that the original intent of the CCD technology was to produce higher density solid state memories but the whole CCD memory market evaporated when advances in other memory technologies made CCD memories obsolete due to their serial architecture. AFaIK it was later that the technology was applied to imagers where the serial access was more advantage than disadvantage.

I also suspect that the majority of the solid state imager market will move away from CCD imagers as CMOS is beginning to approach the image quality of the previously better CCDs.
 
I also suspect that the majority of the solid state imager market will move away from CCD imagers as CMOS is beginning to approach the image quality of the previously better CCDs.
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In what applications are CCDs used due to higher image quality?

Digital SLRs moved away from CCDs years ago.
-harry
 
mantakos said:
In what applications are CCDs used due to higher image quality?

Digital SLRs moved away from CCDs years ago.
-harry
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The most significant application that is still dominated by CCDs is astral photography (astrophotography). They use large CCD arrays cooled with peltier devices or cyrogenic liquids. Full frame and frame transfer CCDs produce less noise and wider dynamic range.
 
gismo said:
The most significant application that is still dominated by CCDs is astral photography (astrophotography). They use large CCD arrays cooled with peltier devices or cyrogenic liquids. Full frame and frame transfer CCDs produce less noise and wider dynamic range.
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Also some types of microscopy- I'm familiar with fluorescence, but CMOS is making its way there as well.
 
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