The company engages in contracts for custom CCDs for military surveillance and astronomy. Consumer products, such as video cameras, scanners, and fax machines, use front-illuminated CCDs. The process develops silicon wafers as thin as 10 m. In addition, the company uses a proprietary organic-phosphor coating to improve the sensitivity of CCDs in the blue and UV wavelengths. A CCD's specifications determine which device an equipment manufacturer selects and, ultimately, which camera it decides to use in a particular application.
System designers choose CCDs based on specifications that they want in the final camera.
The equipment manufacturer can build the camera into its equipment. The company can also purchase the chosen CCD and license the device free to a camera designer for final design. The IR detectors work in machines such as fruit sorters in assembly lines. The IR detector can sense the water vapor in different types of fruit. The company provides evaluation kits for many of its array CCDs.