Blooming
When a CCD exposure is long enough, eventually the electrons that collect in the "bins" in the brightest part of the image will overflow the bin, resulting in blooming. The structure of the CCD allows the electrons to flow more easily in one direction than another, resulting in vertical streaking.
Some anti-blooming features that can be built into a CCD reduce its sensitivity to light by using some of the pixel area for a drain structure. James M. Early developed a vertical anti-blooming drain that would not detract from the light collection area, so did not reduce light sensitivity.
Read more about this topic: Charge-coupled Device
Famous quotes containing the word blooming:
“Then cut down the trees when lumber grown,
And there’s your pristine earth all freed
From lovely blooming but wasteful weed
And ready again for the grass to own.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“... Live!/and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“‘Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)