CCD Related Links

These links were collected mainly from postings to the CCD-World Mailing List.
Vacuum workers might find my Vacuum & Cryogenic Links page handy

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CCD-World List Members and CCD development Labs - Home Pages

• Tim Abbott - Nordic Optical Telescope, La Palma, Canary Islands
• Tim Abbott - Inst. for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii (previous position)
• I.N.G. (Isaak Newton Group of Telescopes) Detector Group
• The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington - Instrumentation devision
• Carnegie Observatories - Magellan Guider Camera Design Description
• INGRID (Isaac Newton Group Red Imaging Device) - Near-IR camera for the 4.2m WHT
• Micheal I. Anderson - IJAF, Copenhagen University Observatory
• Micheal I. Anderson & Anton N. Sørensen - MTF studies at IJAF
• ESO Optical Detector Team Homepage
• Don Groom - Particle Data Group, Supernova Cosmology Project - HiRho CCD
• Tim Hardy - Instrumentation group, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation's CCD Detector Systems described
• McDonald Observatory CCD group
• Nick Heyes - Manchester Scientific Instruments
• Michael Hoffberg - The Time-Resolved Detector Development Program
• Ralf Kohley - University of Bonn CCD lab
• Michael Lesser - Steward Observatory, Arizona
• NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories), Tucson - Engineering and Technical Services (ETS)
• UCO/Lick Observatory Detector Development Laboratory
• San Diego State University, Astronomy Department, CCD Lab home page
• UKATC (UK Astronomy Technology Centre) Electronics Group, Edinburgh
• Klaus Reif - Instrumentation Group of the Astronomical Institutes, Bonn, Germany
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan CCD Detector Lab.
• Jamey Eriksen, Detector Specialist, CFHT Corporation, Hawaii - including DSDU-II software

  Chip Manufacturers

• SITe - formerly TEK
• E2V Technologies - formerly Marconi Technologies - formerly EEV - Alternative URL
• iMAGERLABS
• Philips Semiconductors, Image Sensors
• Fairchild Imaging
• Kodak
• Semiconductor Technology Associates
• Toshiba
• DALSA
• Sarnoff Corp. - Develops and Manufactures CCD and CMOS APS imagers and cameras
• Electron Optronic and Silar Ltd.

  Commercial camera builders

• Andor Technology - Manufacturers of spectroscopic components and CCD cameras
• Apogee Instruments, Tucson, Arizona
• DALSA Inc, Canada & Germany - For High Speed, High Resolution CCD Cameras
• PixCellent Imaging Ltd., Cambridge, England
• PixelVision - Beaverton, OR
• Photobit - high performance CMOS Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology
• Photometrics, Tucson, Arizona
• Princeton Instruments, Trenton, NJ
• Proscan, Scheuring, Germany - Imaging and Spectroscopic Cameras
• Sarnoff Corp. - - Develops and Manufactures CCD and CMOS APS imagers and cameras
• Spectral Instruments, Tucson, Arizona

  Tutorials, etc.

• A good write-up on CCD characterisation & setup, including a collection of relevant CCD-world discussions
• Lucent Technologies' article on the invention of CCDs
• "Evolving Towards The Perfect CCD"
• "In Pursuit of the Perfect CCD Environment"
• Apogee Instruments' - "CCD University"
• CCD Electronic Astronomical Imaging
• Free IRIS CCD image processing software and some very good image processing tutorials
• The AUDINE project, a CCD camera for everybody! Build your own astronomical CCD camera
• Santa Barbara Research Center's Infrared Tutorial
• Photometrics' Reference Library - Tutorials on most CCD terms
• Peltier Device Information Directory
• Sarnoff Corp. - Tutorials
• amazon.com link to J. Janesick's book Scientific Charge-Coupled Devices

  Similar Link Pages

• CCD-World's CCD Resources
• Kaifan Ji's CCD Family - Lots of CCD Links

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