Thread: Infrared sensitivity of CCD imagers
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Old 12-02-2013, 03:22 PM
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Short answer...no.
The silicon in the CCD chip becomes "transparent" to NIR around 1100nm.
Howell's Book " Handbook of CCD Astronomy" p 37 explains the reasons....
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