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76 CHAPTER 3<br />

substrate (Equation 3.1). The capture volume is comparable to that <strong>of</strong> SCCDs for<br />

similar voltages.<br />

Figure 3.19 shows another advantage <strong>of</strong> BCCD devices over SCCDs. The<br />

transport deeper in the semiconductor additionally pr<strong>of</strong>its from increased fringing<br />

fields. The further away from the surface, the more blurred is the potential influence<br />

from neighboring CCD gates. Near the oxide there are regions under the photogate<br />

<strong>with</strong>out a potential gradient. In these regions charge transport can only take place<br />

by thermal diffusion and self-induced drift, slow transport processes compared to<br />

the drift in an electric field (compare Section 3.1.3).<br />

Figure 3.19 Horizontal potential distribution at different <strong>distance</strong>s from the<br />

surface. [TEU].<br />

To summarize, in BCCDs the depletion <strong>of</strong> the semiconductor is not achieved by the<br />

voltages on the CCD gates but by properly biasing the pn-junction between the lowdoped<br />

buried implant and the semiconductor substrate. The voltages on the CCD<br />

gates are only used to generate potential differences in the horizontal direction,<br />

which makes the charge transportation possible.

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