CCDs CCDs CCDs. You've never heard of them, now I will tell you all about them!
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Pages used in this wondrous slide show:

Peariso, Doug, Preventing Foreign Material Contamination of Foods, p 164

CCDs from the Portland State University Physics Department

Thompson, Tom, "Charge-Coupled Device"
in Computerworld Software Topics

Loch, Matthias, Widenhorn, Ralf, and Bodegoma, Erik, "Infrared response of charge-coupled devices"
From the Portland State University Department of Physics and the Delft University of Technology Department of Microelectonics

Earle, Colin, "CCD DETECTORS - Spectral improvements extend uses of intensified CCDs"
From Laser Focus World, Sept. 01, 1999

The product page for Symphony CCD Detectors
From the company site of Horiba Jobin Yvon

The product page for a Synapse CCD Detector
From the company site of Horiba Jobin Yvon

A CCD overview from Radiant Imaging, Inc., 2007

CCD vs. CMOS (suspiciously helpful)
From the Dasla company site.

Medical Applications page
From the Fairchild Imaging company site.

"CCD solutions for a wide range of applications"
From Electronic Times, Sept. 14, 1998

Agger, Michael, "The Camera Phone"
From Slate, Jan. 17, 2007

An excerpt from "CCD vs. CMOS Imagers: How They Work in Camera Phones" by Avago Technologies
From techonline, Feb 27, 2006

How Night Vision Works
From Electrophysics Corp., visited Nov. 13, 2008

Serial in/serial out shift register
From All About Circuits, visited Nov. 13, 2008

RGB "Bayer" Color and Microlenses
From the Silicon Imaging company site, visited Nov. 13, 2008

Peltier Cooler Information, by Tillmann Steinbrecher
From The Heatsink Guide, copyright 1997-2005

A helpful site about the Hubble cooling system
By Nasa itself. Viewed Nov. 15, 2008

Covington, Michael, How to Subtract Dark Frames with Photoshop, Photoshop LE, or Photoshop Elements
From Astromart Articles, Nov. 25, 2004

And yes, Wikipedia was also referenced, though not taken as an authority.
Please note that the content of the wiki page is very often subject to the date.
Charge-coupled Devices
Super CCDs
Faxes