CdCl2 treatment and its role in enhancing photodetection properties of CdTe and Cd1-xZnxTe films

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2025

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Elsevier

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

Close space sublimated CdTe and Cd1-xZnxTe (CZT) films were grown on glass substrates and CdCl2 activation was applied on these films to improve their physical, optical and electrical characteristics for photodetector applications. X-ray diffraction data showed that CdCl2 treatment of CdTe caused a reduction in the dislocation density and microstrain, whereas Zn incorporation/CdCl2 treatment slightly increased these values compared to the as-deposited CdTe films. Morphological examination indicated that CdCl2 activation transformed grains from faceted to rounded shape for both CdTe and CZT films. A band gap enlargement was observed from 1.45 eV to 1.47 eV for both CdTe and CZT films upon CdCl2 treatment. CdCl2-treated CZT films were used to fabricate photodetectors that exhibited the highest performance with a rise/fall time of 27/28 ms, sensitivity of 1301 %, responsivity of 0.0143 A/W, detectivity of 5.7x107 Jones and external quantum efficiency of 4.0 % under blue light illumination at 2 V.

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CdTe and CZT thin films, CSS, CdCl 2 treatment, Photodetector

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Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials

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317

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