A new technological release that might help us all - with 10,000% QE !!!
http://www.sionyx.com/arrays.asp
With a claimed 100x signal improvement over traditional silicon CCD devices and pixels of 1 micron being equivalent to traditional pixels of 36 microns - this does indeed sound like the the Astronomer's dream imaging device.
If it becomes commercial then this will revolutionise astro imaging, but I'd like to see the specs first. (noise, dynamic range, well depth, etc)
They claim "remarkably low dark current even at room temperature"
Just think of the image scale !