Thanks Rally, I'd hope you would "chip in" with Black Silicon
I read about Black silicon a while back and there didn't seem to be any commercially available devices at the time. But it seems like there may. But I agree very impressive and I don't think it suffers the Quantum efficiency loss that the L3CCD stuff does once you start getting significant amounts of signal.
The other similiar devices include the ICCD, intensified CCD's, but the images from the other technologies appear cleaner and higher resolution. The ICCD images appear to be contaminated heavily with sporadic flashes (cosmic rays striking phosphor tube?).
Terry