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Also Known As	charge-coupled device

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Diagram of a CCD image sensor showing a grid with 483 rows and 520 columns, each square representing a pixel made up of a photodiode and field-effect transistor, connected to horizontal and vertical shift registers for video output.

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Topics

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Key People

CCD

Willard Boyle

Canadian physicist

CCD

George E. Smith

American physicist