Images of space transformed by CCD's
SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-10-30
TOPICS:
Image Sensors • Digital Photography • Charge-coupled Device • Image Processing • Digital Cameras • Willard Boyle • Technology_internet
[172 diggs @ General Sciences] This year's Nobel prize for physics was partly awarded to Willard Boyle and George Smith for inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), the sensor that acts as the retina of digital cameras. But long before it reached consumers, the technology was...
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