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Bring Back Super CCD Technology!

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Truman Prevatt
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Re: Bring Back Super CCD Technology!

GossCTP wrote:

Aoi Usagi wrote:

Modern backside illuminated sensors made SuperCCD obsolete. The SuperCCD were made to overcome the limitations of frontside illumination issues.

As I recall, CCD had no circuitry on the front side. They used a "bucket brigade" to move the charges to the read out circuitry at the edges of the sensor. While modern sensors have enough DR to make such a design largely obsolete, I don't think BSI really enters into it.

No BSI doesn't since there was no electronics on the CCD.  The charge was marched off chip for processing.  On the other hand CCD still enjoy a sensitivity, DR and low noise performance advantage over CMOS but at least about 6 dB.  Phase One still uses CCD in several of its backs.

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