Topic summary
CCD camera
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Charge-coupled device.
Intensified charge-coupled device
ICCD cameras are in general somewhat higher in price than EMCCD cameras because they need the expensive image intensifier. On the other hand, EMCCD cameras need a cooling system to cool the EMCCD chip down to temperatures around 170 K (−103 °C). This cooling system adds additional costs to the EMCCD camera and often yields heavy condensation problems in the application.