Wafer-Scale Scientific CCDs at Fairchild Imaging

Fairchild Imaging roots can be traced back to the Fairchild Semiconductor company, one of the pioneering companies that commercially produced CCD imagers as early as 1973. Over the years, the company changed its name through several corporate acquisitions including Loral, and Lockheed Martin. In 1990, it inherited the Ford Aerospace CCD division, and finally, in 2001, Fairchild Imaging became an independent company. The company specializes in the manufacture of advanced large format monolithic CCD detector arrays for industrial, medical, and scientific applications. Other key products are high-speed linear CCDs, and TDI (time delay and integration) CCDs for automated machine inspection, and earth resource imaging applications. In addition, many custom-designed image sensors have been successfully developed for critical space, and defense programs. Fairchild Imaging's entire CCD design, wafer fabrication, and manufacturing facilities are located in Milpitas, California.