With the potential to save lives, Lockheed Martin’s Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) will provide earlier alerts of developing tornados and severe storms by monitoring lightning on a continental scale. The 500 frame per second CCD imager with variable pixel size (STA3900A) at the heart of the GLM was developed by Semiconductor Technology Associates, Inc. The… Continue Reading
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STA1600
The STA1600 is a full frame 10560 x 10560 CCD with 9 um pixels. Continue Reading
STA4150
The STA4150 is a full frame 4096 x 4096 CCD with 15 um pixels. Continue Reading
Archon
Archon is a high performance modular CCD controller with a gigabit ethernet interface intended for readout rates up to a few MHz. Continue Reading
Archon CCD controller announced
STA is excited to announce the availability of our next-generation CCD controller, Archon. The system offers a simple fiber or copper gigabit ethernet interface. Archon features a modular, 12 slot design that can digitize up to 16 CCD outputs at pixel rates up to a few MHz. Digital CDS processing enables a typical SNR of… Continue Reading
STA4150 announced
STA is pleased to announce the STA4150, a 4k x 4k scientific CCD with 15 μm pixels and four low noise outputs. See more details here. Continue Reading
First AST3 camera accepted and in transit to Antarctica
The first of 3 STA cameras has been accepted and installed by NIAOT for the AST3 (Antarctic Survey Telescope) project. Each camera consists of a backside illuminated STA1600FT CCD (10k x 5k frame transfer, 9 μm pixel), a compact dewar with TEC cooling, and an STA Reflex camera controller. The NAIOT announcement can be read… Continue Reading
URAT Camera Delivered to Navy
STA delivered the URAT camera to Norbert Zacharias at the USNO in Washington, D.C. in August of 2011. The URAT camera is a focal plane of four 10k x 10k STA1600 CCDs with supporting guider CCDs, a liquid nitrogen cooled dewar, and the supporting camera controllers. You can see images of the project on the… Continue Reading
Overwhelmingly Large CCDs
Overwhelmingly Large CCDs for Astronomical Applications This presentation from the 2009 Detectors for Astronomy conference gives an overview of applications for which STA has developed CCDs. Download the PDF: Overwhelmingly Large CCDs for Astronomy Continue Reading
Update of the STA1600 10560 x 10560 high-resolution CCD
This is our presentation from the 2010 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference in San Diego. Summary: Full 6” wafer imager 10560 x 10560 pixels 9 micron pixel 111,513,600 pixels per frame 16 dual stage high speed outputs Backside thinned available Acquisition speeds up to 1 frame/sec Designed for US Naval Observatory Download the PDF:… Continue Reading