CdTe and Related Compounds; Physics, Defects, Hetero- and Nano-structures, Crystal Growth, Surfaces and Applications, 1st Edition

✍ Scribed by Robert Triboulet, Paul Siffert

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Almost thirty years after the remarkable monograph of K. Zanio and the numerous conferences and articles dedicated since that time to CdTe and CdZnTe, after all the significant progresses in that field and the increasing interest in these materials for several extremely attractive industrial applications, such as nuclear detectors and solar cells, the edition of a new enriched and updated monograph dedicated to these two very topical II-VI semiconductor compounds, covering all their most prominent, modern and fundamental aspects, seemed very relevant and useful. Detailed coverage of the main topics associated with the very topical II-VI semiconductor compound CdTe and its alloy CZTReview of the CdTe recent developments Fundamental background of many topics clearly introduced and exposed

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
List of Contributors......Page 3
Foreword......Page 5
Crystal Growth and Surfaces......Page 6
Introduction......Page 9
Cadmium......Page 10
Tellurium......Page 12
Cadmium......Page 14
Tellurium......Page 17
Purification of the CdTe and CdZnTe compounds......Page 19
Oxygen contamination......Page 20
References......Page 21
Phase Equilibria in the Cd-Te System......Page 24
Crystal Growth Versus Cd-Te Chemical Bond Characteristics......Page 28
Synthesis......Page 32
Liquid phase synthesis......Page 33
Solution synthesis......Page 35
Container......Page 40
Vertical Bridgman......Page 41
Zone refining......Page 45
Solution growth......Page 46
Physical vapor transport......Page 49
Chemical vapor transport......Page 52
Solid state recrystallization......Page 53
Bridgman Growth Modeling and Interface Shape Determination......Page 54
Segregation......Page 61
Solid-vapor equilibrium in the CdTe-ZnTe system......Page 67
Purity, Contamination, and Doping......Page 69
Conclusions and Perspectives......Page 70
References......Page 72
Introduction: Crystal Growth Under Microgravity......Page 81
Growth from the Vapour Phase......Page 82
Growth by thm with a Rotating Magnetic Field......Page 84
Bridgman Growth Using Dewetting Phenomenon......Page 85
References......Page 87
Introduction......Page 90
Molecular beam epitaxy......Page 95
Close space sublimation......Page 98
Atomic layer epitaxy......Page 100
Metal organic vapor phase epitaxy......Page 101
Growth on Ge......Page 104
Growth on Si......Page 105
Growth on GaAs......Page 112
Outline and Conclusions......Page 118
References......Page 119
Introduction......Page 124
Bromine and Iodine Containing Etchant Compositions......Page 126
Etchant Compositions Based on Nitric Acid......Page 129
Etchant Compositions Based on Cr(VI) Compounds......Page 131
Halogen-Evolving Etchant Compositions......Page 132
Influence of Doping on Chemical Etching......Page 134
Influence of Crystallographic Orientation on Chemical Etching......Page 138
Chemical Etching of ZnxCd1-xTe Solid Solutions......Page 140
Nanodimensional Formation on CdTe and Zn1-xCdxTe Surfaces at Chemical Etching......Page 142
Conclusion......Page 144
References......Page 145
Applications......Page 150
Experimental details......Page 158
TWM gains without an external electric field......Page 159
Continuous electric field......Page 163
Periodic square-shaped electric field......Page 165
Discussion on the frequency dependence of the gain......Page 170
Class I crystals......Page 174
Class II crystals......Page 176
EPR results......Page 177
Discussion......Page 178
Effects of physico-chemical parameters......Page 179
Effects of a second deep trap level......Page 180
Rollover......Page 195
Crossover......Page 197
Lightweight flexible substrates......Page 207
Bifacial CdTe solar cell......Page 210
B......Page 261
C......Page 263
D......Page 264
F......Page 265
G......Page 266
H......Page 267
K......Page 268
L......Page 270
M......Page 271
N......Page 272
O......Page 273
R......Page 274
S......Page 275
T......Page 277
W......Page 278
Y......Page 279
Z......Page 280
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