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October 13, 1986

the Charge Coupled Device

Dr. John Vallerga
University of California, Berkeley

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. John Vallerga of the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley will explain how CCDs work and how they are used to efficiently detect photons in astronomy and high energy physics.