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Limits RegistryWillard Boyle and George E. Smith of Bell Labs conceived the charge-coupled device in 1969, sketching a scheme that shifts packets of charge from one MOS capacitor to the next. CCDs became the dominant electronic image sensor for decades, from digital cameras to the Hubble Space Telescope, and earned Boyle and Smith half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Willard Boyle and George E. Smith of Bell Labs conceived the charge-coupled device in 1969, sketching a scheme that shifts packets of charge from one MOS capacitor to the next. CCDs became the dominant electronic image sensor for decades, from digital cameras to the Hubble Space Telescope, and earned Boyle and Smith half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The year the charge-coupled device, the first practical solid-state imaging sensor technology, was conceived.
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Limits Registry. LR-CCD-IMAGE-SENSOR-INVENTION. Invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor. 2026.