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Photoluminescence of Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Comparison of HgCdTe/GaAs and HgCdTe/Si Technologies

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Properties of HgCdTe films grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs and Si substrates have been studied by performing variable-temperature photoluminescence (PL) measurements. A substantial difference in defect structure between films grown on GaAs (013) and Si (013) substrates was revealed. HgCdTe/GaAs films were mostly free of defect-related energy levels within the bandgap, which was confirmed by PL and carrier lifetime measurements. By contrast, the properties of HgCdTe/Si films are affected by uncontrolled point defects. These could not be always associated with typical “intrinsic” HgCdTe defects, such as mercury vacancies, so consideration of other defects, possibly inherent in HgCdTe/Si structures, was required. The post-growth annealing was found to have a positive effect on the defect structure by reducing the full-widths at half-maximum of excitonic PL lines for both types of films and lowering the concentration of defects specific to HgCdTe/Si.

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  1. Ioffe Institute, St.-Petersburg, Russia

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  2. ITMO University, St.-Petersburg, Russia

    K. D. Mynbaev

  3. A.V. Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

    S. A. Dvoretsky, N. N. Mikhailov, V. S. Varavin, D. V. Marin & M. V. Yakushev

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Mynbaev, K.D., Bazhenov, N.L., Dvoretsky, S.A. et al. Photoluminescence of Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Comparison of HgCdTe/GaAs and HgCdTe/Si Technologies. J. Electron. Mater. 47, 4731–4736 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-018-6364-9

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