RT Journal Article
T1 Growth of Bi doped cadmium zinc telluride single crystals by Bridgman oscillation method and its structural, optical, and electrical analyses
A1 Carcelen, V.
A1 Hidalgo Alcalde, Pedro
A1 Rodríguez Fernández, J.
A1 Dieguez, E.
AB The II-VI compound semiconductor cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) is very useful for room temperature radiation detection applications. In the present research, we have successfully grown Bi doped CZT single crystals with two different zinc  concentrations (8 and 14 at. %) by the Bridgman oscillation method, in which one experiment has been carried out with a platinum (Pt) tube as the ampoule support. Pt also acts as a cold finger and reduces the growth velocity and enhances crystalline perfection. The grown single crystals have been studied with different analysis methods. The stoichiometry was confirmed by energy dispersive by x-ray and inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy analyses and it was found there is no incorporation of impurities in the grown crystal. The presence of Cd and Te vacancies was determined by cathodoluminescence studies. Electrical properties were assessed by I-V analysis and indicated higher resistive value (8.53 x 10^8 Ω cm) for the crystal grown with higher zinc concentration (with Cd excess) compare to the other (3.71 x 10^5 Ω cm).
PB American Institute of Physics
SN 0021-8979
YR 2010
FD 2010-05-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42711
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/42711
LA eng
NO © 2010 American Institute of Physics.This work was partially supported by the following Projects: Spanish “Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia” under Project No. ESP2006-09935; Spanish “Comunidad de Madrid” under Project No. S- 0505/MAT-0279; European Commission under Project No. FP7-SEC-2007-01, and European Space Agency under Contract No. 14240/00/NL/SH. One of the authors  V.C. is thankful to the Ministry of Education and Science, Spain for the financial support. The author N.V. is grateful to Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for providing the BOYSCAST fellowship.
NO Unión Europea. FP7
NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC)
NO Comunidad de  Madrid
NO European Space Agency
DS Docta Complutense
RD 13 may 2025