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Essential in everything from guided missiles to advanced mobile phones, charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have been described as the digital equivalent of photographic film. Crucial to the proposed mission, which Perlmutter calls SNAPSAT (Supernova/Acceleration Probe Satellite), are the size and sensitivity of its light detectors--large mosaics of solid-state sensors known as charge-coupled devices. Camera phones comprised over 70% of all digital cameras that shipped in 2005, and the vast majority of these devices used Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) sensors, with the remainder using Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs), the high-tech market research firm says. |
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