The growth of Cd/x/Hg/1-x/Te using organometallics
Abstract
The growth of layers of cadmium mercury telluride (CMT) by metal organic vapor phase epitaxy is discussed with special reference to the underlying factors that determine composition. It has been shown in an experimental study that whereas the value of the composition parameter x is substantially constant from 410 C to at least 435 C, the value of x progressively increases to unity with a decrease in temperature below 410 C. The cause of this phenomenon has been identified with the mechanism of pyrolysis of the alkyls.
- Publication:
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Journal of Vacuum Science Technology
- Pub Date:
- June 1982
- DOI:
- 10.1116/1.571707
- Bibcode:
- 1982JVST...21..178M
- Keywords:
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- Mercury Cadmium Tellurides;
- Organometallic Compounds;
- Pyrolysis;
- Vapor Phase Epitaxy;
- Cadmium Tellurides;
- Crystal Growth;
- Temperature Effects;
- Thermodynamic Equilibrium;
- Solid-State Physics