• Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves
  • Vol. 28, Issue 5, 325 (2009)
YANG Jian-Rong, ZHANG Chuan-Jie, FANG Wei-Zheng, WEI Yan-Feng, LIU Cong-Feng, SUN Shi-Wen, CHEN Xiao-Jing, XU Qing-Qing, GU Ren-Jie, and CHEN Xin-Qiang
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    YANG Jian-Rong, ZHANG Chuan-Jie, FANG Wei-Zheng, WEI Yan-Feng, LIU Cong-Feng, SUN Shi-Wen, CHEN Xiao-Jing, XU Qing-Qing, GU Ren-Jie, CHEN Xin-Qiang. Te-RICH DIPPING TECHNIQUE OF HgCdTe LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2009, 28(5): 325 Copy Citation Text show less

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    Te-rich dipping technique of HgCdTe liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) was studied. An experimental method was proposed to check the homogenization of (Hg 1-x Cd x ) 1-y Te y melt just before the dipping. The gas convection and Hg cir- cumfluence in the growth chamber were suppressed by reducing the free space of gowth chamber. The process control of the growth temperature was improved to suit for the poor temperature reproducibility induced by the gas convection and Hg cir- cumfluence. In this way, the composition reproducibility of MW HgCdTe grown by LPE reaches ±0.005. The thickness uncertainty is controlled to be within ±5μm and the transverse composition uniformity (standard square deviation/average) for 40×30mm 2 wafer is less than 1.3×10 -3 . The differences of the composition and thickness are less than 0.001 and 1μm, respectively, for the different wafers grown at the same time. The surface fluctuation of the sample is less than 1μm for over 10 mm dimension. It was also observed that, after thermal treatment, our p-type MW HgCdTe epilayers with Hg- vacancy doping have higher hole mobility at 77K compared with the materials grown by other techniques. Besides, com- pared with horizontal slide LPE, the dipping technique has obvious advantage in the manufacture of large size HgCdTe films and multi-wafers with the same property. Hence, the technique is helpful to develope the batch manufacturing technology of the second generation HgCdTe infrared focal plane array, and it is also significant to develope the splicing of super-large- scale infrared focal plane arrays.
    YANG Jian-Rong, ZHANG Chuan-Jie, FANG Wei-Zheng, WEI Yan-Feng, LIU Cong-Feng, SUN Shi-Wen, CHEN Xiao-Jing, XU Qing-Qing, GU Ren-Jie, CHEN Xin-Qiang. Te-RICH DIPPING TECHNIQUE OF HgCdTe LIQUID PHASE EPITAXY[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2009, 28(5): 325
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