Journal
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
Volume 35, Issue 6, Pages 1251-1256Publisher
MINERALS METALS MATERIALS SOC
DOI: 10.1007/s11664-006-0250-6
Keywords
CZT; MASTRAP model; Bridgman technique; 2-MGE; radiation detectors
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High-quality, large (10 cm long and 2.5 cm diameter), nuclear spectrometer grade Cd0.9Zn0.1Te (CZT) single crystals have been grown by a controlled vertical Bridgman technique using in-house zone refined precursor materials (Cd, Zn, and Te). A state-of-the-art computer model, multizone adaptive scheme for transport and phase-change processes (MASTRAP), is used to model heat and mass transfer in the Bridgman growth system and to predict the stress distribution in the as-grown CZT crystal and optimize the thermal profile. The model accounts for heat transfer in the multiphase system, convection in the melt, and interface dynamics. The grown semi-insulating (SI) CZT crystals have demonstrated promising results for high-resolution room-temperature radiation detectors due to their high dark resistivity (p approximate to 2.8 X 10(11) Omega cm), good charge-transport properties [electron and hole mobility-life-time product, mu tau(e) approximate to (2-5) X 10(-3) and mu tau(h) approximate to (3-5) X 10(-5) respectively, and low cost of production. Spectroscopic ellipsometry and optical transmission measurements were carried out on the grown CZT crystals using two-modulator generalized ellipsometry (2-MGE). The refractive index n and extinction coefficient k were determined by mathematically eliminating the similar to 3-nm surface roughness layer. Nuclear detection measurements on the single-element CZT detectors with Am-241. and Cs-137 clearly detected 59.6 and 662 keV energies with energy resolution (FWHM) of 2.4 keV (4.0%) and 9.2 keV (1.4%), respectively.
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