This book describes the benefits of using a new type of solid-state multichannel detector, the charge transfer device, as it is used for chemical imaging and analysis. The publishing of this book coincides with the introduction by numerous commercial vendors of complete spectroscopy systems which include charge-transfer devices (CTD). This text points to the potential uses of CTD. Essentially CTDs allow chemists to get more out of their instruments, allowing them to avoid false positive (and false negative) results. CTDs are said to be the future way in all kinds of spectroscopic instrumentation, including Raman, atomic emission and luminescence spectroscopy, atomic source diagnostics and planar chromatography.