Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE
Volume 64, Issue 10, Pages 2706-2712Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2017.2744327
Keywords
II-VI compound semiconductor devices; carrier transport; laser-induced transient-current technique (TCT); semiconductor device modeling; X-ray detectors
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The laser-induced current technique has been successful used to reconstruct the spatial profile of the electric field along the thickness of a set of CdZnTe spectroscopic X-ray detectors. Current transient profiles for electrons at different applied voltages have been analyzed by means of a minimization procedure demonstrating its applicability to samples with thickness ranging from 250 mu m to 4 mm. Mobility and lifetime of electrons have also been deduced and compared with the mobility-lifetime products, as evaluated by fitting the charge collection efficiency curves under a suitable electric field profile model. Comparison between results from both techniques gives a good agreement and confirms the validity of the procedure. This method results applicable each time that carrier transit times can be evaluated from the laser-induced current transients. It could be suitable for many other devices provided that they are made of materials with sufficiently high resistivity, i.e., with a sufficiently low density of free carriers in dark conditions.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available