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Heat treatment of cadmium mercury telluride

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6350293
A method for the heat treatment of cadmium mercury telluride homogeneous single crystals is disclosed wherein the crystals are heated and maintained at a temperature in the range of from about 300 K to below the solidus temperature of the composition trea in the presence of mercury, the vapor pressure of mercury being less than the saturation vapor pressure of mercury.
Assignee:
Cominco Ltd (Canada)
Patent Number(s):
US 4374684
OSTI ID:
6350293
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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