Failure Mechanisms Research of CCD Imaging Devices Induced by Pulsed Laser

Aiming at the phenomenon that irreversible bright line and all screen black happens in the CCDs irradiated by pulsed laser, the resistance between driving electrodes and substrate was measured, damage micro-morphology of different layers in the facular area was observed, exported waveforms were detected, the damage mechanisms for CCD were analyzed in detail. The coming results show that high power pulse laser induced the ablation at different layers of CCD, increased the dark current and leakage current, which induced the failure of the device.

Solar Irradiance Variability and Luminosity Changes

This review presents a discussion of radiometrie measurements of solar total irradiance variation, ΔS, on time scales of days, to the 15-year extent of present measurements. It does not cover variations in spectral irradiance, particularly the relatively large solar UV and EUV flux variations of great importance in studies of trends in stratospheric ozone, and of upper atmospheric heating variations.Analysis of the pyrheliometry of ΔS carried out from the Solar Maximum Mission, Nimbus-7 and ERB S satellites has shown that a) the sun brightens by 0.05 - 0.1% around activity maximum and; b) it dims by up to approximately 0.2% when large sunspot groups cross the disc. Empirical models of ΔS based on areas and photometric contrasts of sunspots, and on proxies of facular area, are remarkably successful in matching the observed record of ΔS, on time scales between days and the full 15- year record available since 1978. These models indicate that the opposite contributions of sunspots and faculae in active regions roughly balance over time scales of years, and the net solar brightening observed around peak activity is caused by increased emission from the photospheric magnetic network.