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CHARACTERISTICS AND ANNEALING OF NEUTRON IRRADIATED PbTe

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4821935
Presented at American Physical Society, Chicago, Nov. 24-25, l961. Changes in electric conductlvity, sigma , Hall coefficient, R/sub H/, and Seebeck coefficient, S, after high flux reactor irradiation of n- and p-type PbTe are reported. The p-type PbTe sample was irradiated to total accumulated doses of l.0 x l0/sup 19/ n/cm/sup 2./ (fast) and 3.0 x 10/sup 20/ n/cm/sup 2/ (thermal), and the n-type sample was irradiated to doses of 10 x l0 cm neutrons with energy greater than l Mev and thermal neutron doses of l0 cm/sup -2/. lt was concluded that n-type PbTe is capable of retaining all of its basic semiconductor properties after reactor irradiations of l0/sup 20/ n/cm/sup 2/ (fast) and l0/sup 21/ n/cm/sup 2./ (thermal) as long as the temperature of the material during irradiation is above about l70 deg C. The same general conclusion applies to p- type PbTe irradiated to l0/sup 19/ n/cm/sup 2/ (fast) and 3 x 10/sup 20/ n/cm/sup 2/ (thermal) with the added provision that the temperature during irradiation need only be above l50 deg C. (P.C.H.)
Research Organization:
Knolls Atomic Power Lab., Schenectady, N.Y.
DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-ENG-52
NSA Number:
NSA-16-005765
OSTI ID:
4821935
Report Number(s):
TID-14429
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English