History Of The Open Pinned Phase (OPP) . CCD Architecture . One year after the invention of the CCD Robert Krambeck and Carlo Sequin of Bell Laboratories patented a method of fabricating a two-phase CCD (U.S. Patent No. 3,735,156, dated 5/1973) with an N-type region between two electrodes on a P-type substrate. ... Finally, James Janesick of JPL published an article "Open Pinned-Phase CCD Technology" (Proc. of the SPIE, Vol. ... Janesick has been granted a U.S. patent for the OPP CCD. ...

... Telescopes . ... Fig. ... Theoretical optical resolving power of the MSS, depending on the phases of the moon under typical weather conditions. ... The optical resolving power of the telescope with the MSS allows to observe stars of up to the 12 magnitude. ... Currently, more than 90% of observational time with the MSS spectrograph is used in the spectropolarimeter mode with a diffraction grating 24.7њ. ... wide spectral region with a reciprocal linear dispersion of 9 ?/mm (0.1215 ?/pix) at a time. ...

MAtrix Radiometric System project ( MARS ). First phase MARS-1 . ... MARS-1 stage of the project main goal is to work out and then investigate single radiometric module of the assumed matrix system, taking into account the possibility to clone it for the next phase of the project. MARS-1 radiometric module is composed of the front-end amplifier ( LNA ) phase, main and back-end amplifier stages, band-limiting filter, detector and low-frequency preamplifier ( figure 1 ). Figure 1. ...

... Corresponding gates in each row are connected in parallel at both edges of the array. ... Other gates. ... otherwise indicated, 45 kpixels/sec and standard voltages using a dual slope CDS circuit (8 µs integration time) Minimum Format Pixel Size Imaging Area Dark current (MPP), 20° C equivalent Readout noise Front Back Full Well signal Output gain CTE per pixel Typical 512 x 512 pixels 24 µm x 24 µm 12.3 mm x 12.3 mm 50 pa/cm2 5 electrons 7 electrons 350,000 electrons 1.5 µV/ electron 0 ...