Terahertz photoconductivity of double acceptors in narrow gap HgCdTe epitaxial films grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs(013) and Si(013) substrates

V. V. Rumyantsev, D. V. Kozlov, S. V. Morozov, M. A. Fadeev, A. M. Kadykov, F. Teppe, V. S. Varavin, M. V. Yakushev, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretskii, V. I. Gavrilenko

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Abstract

The energy spectra of the mercury vacancy, the most common acceptor in HgCdTe material, is studied via numerical calculations and low temperature photoconductivity (PC) measurements of 'vacancy-doped' HgCdTe films with low cadmium content. Since the Hg vacancy is known to be a double acceptor, the model for the helium atom was adopted for degerate valence band of zinc blende semiconductors to classify the observed PC bands. This approach provides a fairly good description of the photoionization of both neutral and singly-ionized vacancy when the central cell potential is taken into account.

Original languageEnglish
Article number095007
Number of pages9
JournalSemiconductor Science and Technology
Volume32
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Aug 2017

Keywords

  • annealing
  • double acceptors
  • Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
  • HgCdTe
  • Luttinger-Kohn model
  • STATES
  • CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE
  • DEEP LEVELS
  • HG1-XCDXTE
  • HETEROSTRUCTURES
  • ELECTRICAL-PROPERTIES
  • IMPURITY
  • HGTE QUANTUM-WELLS
  • SPECTROSCOPY
  • SPECTRA

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