Thread: Theoretical discussion about CCD / CMOS
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2011-06-23 , 11:16
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#16
Originally Posted by Darkshine View Post
... but theoretically it won't hit a wall until you're making CCDs with each pixel only one photon across - and AFAIK no-one is doing that yet
I think that quantum effects start entering the game (and pooping on the tartan) long before we hit the size of a photon. And I don't think that we can even construct something so small on an industrial scale anyway; that's on the verge of femtotech.