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Willard Boyle Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Willard Boyle and George E. Smith devised the charge-coupled device around controlled storage and movement of electric charge. Adjacent electrodes create potential wells in a semiconductor; timed changes of their voltages move stored electric charge between the wells. The 1970 proposal treats electric charge packets as information and discusses a shift register as well as an imaging device. This links electrostatic control of a surface to the transport and detection of an optical signal.[ref]
Charge Coupled Semiconductor Devices by Willard Sterling Boyle and George Elwood Smith. Bell System Technical Journal 49, 587–593 (1970), device concept and applications
A physicist researching lasers and semiconductor devices.[ref]
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