Before revision: History 240px|George E. Smith and Willard Boyle, 2009 The basis for the CCD is the metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) structure, with MOS capacitors being the basic building blocks of a CCD, and a depleted MOS structure used as the photodetector in early CCD devices.
After revision: , photographed on a Nikon D80, which uses a CCD sensorHistory 240px|George E. Smith and Willard Boyle, 2009 The basis for the CCD is the metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) structure, with MOS capacitors being the basic building blocks of a CCD, and a depleted MOS structure used as the photodetector in early CCD devices.