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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 1-8Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026297416093
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This article reviews the preparation and characterization of polycrystalline CdTe and CdZnTe films to be used in large-area, high-sensitivity X-ray panel detectors intended for medical diagnostics. The films, deposited by closed-spaced sublimation, are expected to exhibit excellent efficiency at low X-ray doses because of their high sensitivity. The detectors constructed using these films incorporated a novel hybrid technique, in which zinc-doped CdTe was pre-deposited onto a ceramic substrate and then connected to a TFT circuit substrate. The sensor substrate material was specially selected to avoid both incident X-ray attenuation in the substrate and micro-cracks in the film. Zinc doping, which was used to grow the CdTe film, also served to form the heterojunction diode structure that suppressed leakage current. Moreover, the quality of a polycrystalline CdZnTe film deposited on a 9 x 9 substrate was characterized, revealing its applicability to large-area X-ray detectors. Further investigation and improvements are in progress. (C) 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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