Tweet this The APEX II detector is based on a brand new model of the largest scientific grade CCD chip manufactured - the Fairchild Imaging Systems 486 4K CCD.

Scientists have retreated to deep beneath the French Alps to broaden the hunt for dark matter particles that could be ...

Might the secret to the missing mass of the universe lie in particles lighter than anything ever trapped before? Under 1.2 miles of rock in the French Alps, researchers have stationed a new generation ...

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today launched a range of unique X-ray Diffraction CCD Detectors with Smart Sensitivity Control. The Eos S2, Atlas ...

The Berlin-based DLR Institutes of Optical Sensor Systems and Planetary Research (now merged to form the DLR Institute of Space Research) are contributing two electronic modules to ESA's CHEOPS ...

Teledyne e2v designed and provided the 1.2 gigapixel camera for JPCam, which consists of the focal plane array (FPA), the detector control electronics and the CCD290-99 image sensors along with ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Sensitive detectors that may help find habitable planets orbiting distant stars as part of NASA’s Kepler Mission are undergoing tests at Ames Research Center, Moffett ...

The cost and performance of commercial spark optical emission spectrometer (OES) instruments depends on many things, including the type of detector technology employed in the instrument. Recently, ...

It is also possible to dramatically improve the blue and UV quantum efficiency by treating the backside surface of the detector. A UV flooding technique derived from original work at JPL which boosts ...

Using semiconductor lithography and etching, we have developed a technique for the precise alignment of individual CCD detectors on a mosaic substrate. Details of the technique and the fabrication of ...