HgCdTe System - Reference Guide: Volume 267 (Defect and Diffusion Forum) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3908451442 ISBN 13: 9783908451440

Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

This system, consisting of compositions lying between the end-members, CdTe and HgTe, constitutes perhaps the third most important semiconductor after Si and GaAs. Its importance stems from the ability to tailor the band-gap precisely between that (1.5eV) of the semiconductor, CdTe, and the zero value of the semi-metal, HgTe; giving, in particular, one of the most versatile infra-red detectors known. The intermediate compositions also benefit from the usual mechanisms which improve the mechanical properties of alloys.

Edition details

• Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3908451442
• ISBN 13: 9783908451440
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Fisher David J.