Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Composition dependence of the mercury vacancies energy levels in HgCdTe: Evolution of the “negative-U” property

Journal Article · · Journal of Applied Physics
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4840895· OSTI ID:22258692
; ;  [1]
  1. CEA, LETI, Département Optronique, F-38054 Grenoble (France)

HgCdTe films grown by liquid phase epitaxy with different Cd compositions were post-annealed to control the Hg vacancy concentration. Then temperature-dependent Hall measurements and photoluminescence measurements allowed us to study the evolution of the Hg vacancy acceptor levels with the cadmium composition. For Cd compositions below 33% the Hg vacancies in HgCdTe present a negative-U property with the ionized state V{sup −} stabilized compared to the neutral state V{sup 0}. For Cd compositions higher than 45%, the Hg vacancies in HgCdTe present a more standard level ordering with the ionized state V{sup −} at higher energy than the neutral state V{sup 0}.

OSTI ID:
22258692
Journal Information:
Journal of Applied Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Applied Physics Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 114; ISSN JAPIAU; ISSN 0021-8979
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Possible negative- U properties of the cation vacancy in HgCdTe
Journal Article · Wed Feb 28 23:00:00 EST 1990 · Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, A (Vacuum, Surfaces and Films); (USA) · OSTI ID:7141963

Arsenic complexes optical signatures in As-doped HgCdTe
Journal Article · Mon Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Applied Physics Letters · OSTI ID:22162841

Low-level extrinsic doping for p- and n-type (100) HgCdTe grown by molecular-beam epitaxy
Journal Article · Tue Feb 28 23:00:00 EST 1989 · J. Vac. Sci. Technol., A; (United States) · OSTI ID:6445410