I have been spending 5 years working on CCD and astronomical imaging.
Here are a few slides from my invited talk in 2011 DPF of APS, which will give you an overview of the work I am doing.
Here is a popular science article I wrote for the KeXue magazine in China, where I have a section to introduce the CCDs for astronomy. Read the article at here: http://www.kexuemag.cn/Article/ShowInfo.asp?InfoID=13618