Structure of a CCD 4.
On-chip amplifier
at end of the serial
register
Cross section of
serial register
Image Area
Serial
Register
Once again
every third electrode is in the serial register connected together.
Below the image area (the area containing the horizontal
electrodes) is the ‘Serial register’ . This also
consists of a group of small surface electrodes. There
are three electrodes for every column of the image area