CCD Primer

Binning
Bracket Pulsing
CCD Grading
Cosmic Rays
Dark Current
Deep Depletion CCD
Detection Modes
Dual Capacity Mode
Dual Readout Mode
Dynamic Range
Etaloning in CCDs
eXcelon CCD-EMCCD
UV Extension
Fiber Optics
Flat Fielding
Full Well Capacity
Gain
Image Calibration
Imager Architectures
Image Intensifiers
ITO CCD
Kinetics Mode
Linearity
Matching Resolution
MPP Mode
Noise Sources
On-chip Multiplication Gain
Open Poly CCD
Optical Window
PVCAM
Quantum Efficiency
Readout vs Frame Rate
Reducing Dark Current
Saturation/ Blooming
Signal to Noise Calculator
Signal to Noise Ratio
Spurious Charge
XP Cooling

Open Poly or Open Electrode CCD

The Open Poly or open-electrode CCD is a front illuminated CCD with a modified electrode structure to enhance the UV sensitivity. Some of the polysilicon gate structure, which absorbs UV radiation is removed, leaving a large part (40%) of the pixel area uncovered.

See Figure 1.
To control the surface potential in the open area, a shallow p+ implant is located in the buried channel. This pins the local surface potential to that of the substrate. Thus the device operates in a similar manner to a conventional front illuminated CCD at a 40% reduced full well capacity. The QE of the device is increased through the spectral range and is roughly a factor of 2 times better in the UV vs. Lumogen coated devices, while exhibiting none of the etaloning behavior of back illuminated CCD’s beyond 800 nm. We offer the Spec-10 : 256E 1024 x 256 pixel spectroscopy CCD in open-electrode technologie .

Figure 1