Charge-coupled devices turn incoming light into electrical charge in silicon. Their development at Bell Labs helped make digital imaging possible in both cameras and astronomical instruments.
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36:22lot, 1969, invention of the CCD image sensor, the basis for all of our tools we look into the cosmos with. Yes. And not just into the cosmos, you know, the cameras that we have normally. CCD's CMOS is basically the same thing. It's this idea of using silicon and using hardware to detect light. physicists Willard Bole and George E. Smith at Bell Labs in New Jersey. They invented the charge coupled device and it utilized basically the photoelectric effect to localize charge packets within silicon. So now I can just print a chip and that can be my light sensor. Um ushered in
37:04the first digital image sensor and the digital imaging age. Um earned them the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics.