Principles
Charge-coupled devices (CCD)
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Principles
Charge-coupled devices (CCD)

Author : Gilles BOUCHARLAT

Publication date: February 10, 2006 | Lire en français

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1. Principles

Charge-coupled devices are integrated circuits that operate thanks to two simple phenomena:

  • storage of electrical charges in a semiconductor material ;

  • the possible movement of these charges in said material under the effect of an electric field.

1.1 Load storage

The advent of MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) technologies, developed for the manufacture of integrated circuits, has made it possible to produce very small electrical elements with very high impedances - MOS capacitors.

Readers are referred to the MOS transistor and its manufacturing technology and CMOS silicon integrated circuits.

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