Experimental and Theoretical Analysis οf PbTe-CdTe Solid Solution Grown by Physical Vapour Transport Method |
| M. Szot, A. Szczerbakow, K. Dybko, L. Kowalczyk, E. Smajek, V. Domukhovski, E. Łusakowska, P. Dziawa, A. Mycielski, T. Story, M. Bukała, M. Galicka, P. Sankowski, R. Buczko and P. Kacman
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland |
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| Bulk monocrystals of Pb1-xCdxTe, with the Cd content x up to 0.11, were grown by physical vapour transport method. The structural, electrical and optical properties of these ternary crystals were studied experimentally and theoretically. All investigated samples exhibit rock salt structure and high crystal quality, which was confirmed by X-ray rocking curve width parameter of about 100 arcsec. The decrease of the lattice parameter with increasing Cd content x was found experimentally, in agreement with ab initio calculations. The band structures of Pb1-xCdxTe mixed crystals for x values up to 0.2 were calculated using tight binding approach. The calculated band gap in the L-point increases with the Cd content in qualitative agreement with photoluminescence measurements in the infrared. For all studied Pb1-xCdxTe samples, the Hall effect and electrical conductivity measurements, performed in the temperature range from 4 to 300 K, revealed p-type conductivity. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.116.959 PACS numbers: 81.10.Bk, 61.50.Ah, 71.20.Nr, 78.60.Lc, 72.20.Fr |