A deep level induced by gamma irradiation in Hg1-xCdxTe

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Hu, XW [1 ]
Fang, JX
Wang, Q
Zhao, J
Lu, HQ
Gong, HM
Zhang, SK
Lu, F
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[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Shanghai Inst Tech Phys, State Key Labs Transducer Technol, Shanghai 200083, Peoples R China
[2] Fudan Univ, State Key Lab Surface Phys, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China
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10.1063/1.121790
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Admittance spectroscopy and deep-level transient spectroscopy measurements have been performed on n(+)-on-p Hg1-xCdxTe (x = 0.595) planar photodiodes grown by improved zone melt method. After 1.0 Mrads gamma irradiation, a new trap center is observed at 0.19 eV above the valence band, while the well-known 0.15 eV trap level disappears. The trap densities for these two levels are almost the same. We attribute this phenomenon to the gamma irradiation, which produces a compound defect correlated with Hg vacancy. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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