IODINE DOPING OF CDTE AND CDZNTE LAYERS GROWN BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY

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BRUNLECUNFF, D
BARON, T
DAUDIN, B
TATARENKO, S
BLANCHARD, B
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[1] CEA, Département de Recherche Fondamentale sur la Matière Condensée, SPMM/LPI
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10.1063/1.114710
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The successful n-type doping of CdTe and CdZnTe alloys by using iodine as a dopant is reported. For CdTe, doping levels as high as 6.2 X 10(18) cm(-3) can be obtained with carrier mobility around 500 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) at room temperature. An ionization energy of 14.8 meV has been determined for the shallow donor by Hall effect measurements. In the case of Cd1-xZnxTe ternary alloys, only a slight decrease in the carrier density is observed when increasing the Zn concentration, by contrast to doping with indium. The doping level of 5 x 10(17) cm(-3) can be achieved for a Zn concentration x as high as 0.25, demonstrating the higher efficiency of iodine doping as compared to indium doping. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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