Charge-coupled devices have found widespread use in many imaging applications and demonstrate many advantages over other detector technologies such as high speed, low power, low noise, and small physical size. Nevertheless, `off-the-shelf' CCD architectures are frequently not feasible for many unique applications, requiring custom CCD designs and processing. In this paper the authors discuss a CCD sensor developed specifically for a near- infrared linescan-type application. The authors discuss the architecture, design, and performance of the sensor, as well as current work in the project.
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