Charge coupled devices silicon

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Figure 4.2 Schematic diagram of a charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging sensor. It consists of a semiconducting substrate (silicon), topped by a conducting material (doped polysilicon), separated by an insulating layer of silicon dioxide. By applying charge to the polysilicon electrodes, a localized potential well is formed, which traps the charge created by the incident light as it enters the silicon substrate.

A final consideration for the selection of excitation wavelength in Raman spectroscopy is the efficiency of the silicon-cased charge-coupled device (CCD) detector. Due to silicon absorption, CCD detectors are prohibitively inefficient above 1000 nm. As a result, 785 nm or, more recently, 830 nm are often chosen as the excitation wavelength to fully exploit the diagnostic window while retaining an acceptable quantum efficiency detector. 

The classical silicon photodiode linear array manufactured by Reticon was the first detector marketed successfully. Similar solid state linear array detectors based on charge coupled devices, or charge.injection devices may also be of interest. Typical of the families of detectors, the Reticon detectors are built in a number of elements/array sizes. Commercially available units have anywhere from 128 to 1024 elements/array. Each individual element in the array is 1 x 1 mil to 1 x 100 mil in area, and are spaced on approximately 1 mil centers. The spectrometer system discussed in this article was built using Reticon-type devices. 

In recent years, charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have been used increasingly in Raman spectroscopy (13, 14). A CCD is a silicon-based semiconductor arranged as an array of photosensitive elements, each one of which generates photoelectrons and stores them as a small charge. An example format of a 512 x 512 array is shown in Fig. 2-12. Charges are stored on each individual... 

The first detectors to be used in OMA systems were standard TV image tubes. These were silicon vidicons or the more sensitive Silicon Intensified Target (SIT) detectors, which both employed silicon targets to convert optical information into electronic form. More recently, the use of solid state detectors in the form of a diode array (Reticon) has been found to have some advantages over the vidicons and SIT tubes. Current developments in the field of charge coupled devices (CCD) will probably soon provide an even better multielement detector for use in OMA systems. 

Fig. 15.1. Schematic representation of amyloid fibrils revealed by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, (a) The penetration depth of the evanescent field formed by the total internal reflection of laser light is 150nm for a laser light at 455 nm, so only amyloid fibrils lying parallel to the slide glass surface were observed. (b) Schematic diagram of a prism-type TIRFM system on an inverted microscope. ISIT image-intensifier-coupled silicone intensified target camera, CCD charge-coupled device camera...

Chemiluminescent assays are conventionally monitored using photomultiplier-based instruments. However, portable instruments are becoming available that use as photodetectors silicon photodiodes, charge-coupled devices, and instant photographic or x-ray film (58, 63-68). Spacially resolved, quantitative light measurements are pcirticularly advantageous for assays based on membranes or microtiter plates. 

Figure 9. The RCA custom UV-enhanced charge-coupled device studied has had the 500-pm glass substrate removed to leave 10 tan of exposed photoactive silicon.

A wide variety of solid-state detectors consisting of multiple elements (multiple channels) have been developed over the past 20 years (140). Devices that fall into this category include silicon photodiode (SPD) arrays, charge injection devices (CID), charge coupled devices (CCD), microchannel plate (MCP) image inten-... 

Silicon charge coupled devices (CCDs), commonly used in solid-state video cameras and in research applications, are being applied to low light level spectroscopy applications. The main advantage of area array CCDs over linear photodiode detectors is the two-dimensional format, which provides simultaneous measurements of spatial and spectral data. 

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