UV-Optical CCDs . ... Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Marhu Drive Baltimore, MD 21218 . ... The last decade saw an exponential increase in the size of CCD focal plane arrays for ground-based astronomy as shown in Figure 1 adapted from Luppino et al. ... The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) successfully developed and flew a 1kx1k CCD with a SITe near-UV backside process enhanced for 200-400 nm (Kimble et al. 1994), as shown in the comparison of near-UV CCDs in Figure 4 . ...