Acronym · Photonics, MEMS & Sensors
CCD (Charge-Coupled Device)
An image sensor that shifts accumulated photo-charge packet by packet across the array to a single output amplifier. Its uniform, low-noise output once made it the imaging standard before CMOS sensors overtook it on cost, speed and integration.
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Now confined to scientific, astronomy and some machine-vision niches where charge-transfer uniformity still wins.
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