Research and Markets: Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/dee42b/mercury_cadmium_te) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications" to their offering.

“Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications”

Mercury cadmium telluride (MCT) is the third most well-regarded semiconductor after silicon and gallium arsenide and is the material of choice for use in infrared sensing and imaging. The reason for this is that MCT can be tuned' to the desired IR wavelength by varying the cadmium concentration.

"Mercury Cadmium Telluride: Growth, Properties and Applications" provides both an introduction for newcomers, and a comprehensive review of this fascinating material. Part One discusses the history and current status of both bulk and epitaxial growth techniques, Part Two is concerned with the wide range of properties of MCT, and Part Three covers the various device types that have been developed using MCT. Each chapter opens with some historical background and theory before presenting current research.

Coverage includes:

• Bulk growth and properties of MCT and CdZnTe for MCT epitaxial growth
• Liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) growth
• Metal-organic vapour phase epitaxy (MOVPE)
• Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
• Alternative substrates
• Mechanical, thermal and optical properties of MCT
• Defects, diffusion, doping and annealing
• Dry device processing
• Photoconductive and photovoltaic detectors
• Avalanche photodiode detectors
• Room-temperature IR detectors

Key Topics Covered:

Part One - Growth

1 Bulk Growth of Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) - P. Capper

2 Bulk growth of CdZnTe/CdTe crystals - A. Noda, H. Kurita and R. Hirano

3 Properties of Cd(Zn)Te (relevant to use as substrates) - S. Adachi

4 Substrates for the Epitaxial growth of MCT - J. Garland and R. Sporken

5 Liquid phase epitaxy of MCT - P. Capper

6 Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) Growth - C. M. Maxey

7 MBE growth of Mercury Cadmium Telluride - J. Garland

Part Two - Properties

8 Mechanical and Thermal Properties - M. Martyniuk, J.M. Dell and L. Faraone

9 Optical Properties of MCT - J. Chu and Y. Chang

10 Diffusion in MCT - D. Shaw

11 Defects in HgCdTe - Fundamental - M. A. Berding

12 Band Structure and Related Properties of HgCdTe - C. R. Becker and S. Krishnamurthy

13 Conductivity Type Conversion - P. Capper and D. Shaw

14 Extrinsic Doping - D. Shaw and P. Capper

15 Structure and electrical characteristics of Metal/MCT interfaces - R. J. Westerhout, C. A. Musca, Richard H. Sewell, John M. Dell, and L. Faraone

16 MCT Superlattices for VLWIR Detectors and Focal Plane Arrays - James Garland

17 Dry Plasma Processing of Mercury Cadmium Telluride and related II- VIs - Andrew Stolz

18 MCT Photoconductive Infrared Detectors - I. M. Baker

Part Three - Applications

19 HgCdTe Photovoltaic Infrared Detectors - I. M. Baker

20 Nonequilibrium, dual-band and emission devices - C. Jones and N. Gordon

21 HgCdTe Electron Avalanche Photodiodes (EAPDs) - I. M. Baker and M. Kinch

22 Room-temperature IR photodetectors - Jozef Piotrowski and Adam Piotrowski

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