Effective charge carrier lifetime in CdHgTe variable-gap structures

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作者
Osadchii, VM [1 ]
Suslyakov, AO [1 ]
Vasil'ev, VV [1 ]
Dvoretsky, SA [1 ]
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[1] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Semicond Phys, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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10.1134/1.1187682
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
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The effective charge carrier lifetime in n-type CdHgTe variable-gap structures is calculated with allowance for Auger recombination and recombination at dislocations. It is shown that introducing wide, variable-gap layers can eliminate the effect of surface recombination and yield long effective lifetimes, even for high densities of dislocations (above 10(7) cm(-2)). The calculated charge carrier lifetimes are in agreement with measurements on variable-gap structures grown by molecular-beam epitaxy. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S1063-7826(99)00803-0].
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