Sentences with phrase «photosensitive silicon»

A CCD works like this: Light hits a tiny grid of photosensitive silicon cells, each which build a charge proportional to the intensity of the light hitting it.

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When they then shine light on the base of an array of pyramids, it passes through the polymer and out the tips onto a photosensitive layer atop a silicon surface.

First, a film of photosensitive material, or photoresist, is applied onto a silicon wafer.

In 1984, Canon started using amorphous silicon as a coating on the photosensitive drums of its copying machines.