Detection of "Exotic" Dopant-Related Macrodefects in Vapour Grown CdTe:Cr Single Crystals |
| V.D. Popovycha and P. Sagan b
aDepartment of Fundamental Technologies, Ivan Franko Drogobych State Pedagogical University, 24 Ivan Franko str., 82100, Drogobych, Ukraine bCentre for Innovation and Transfer of Natural Sciences and Engineering Knowledge, University of Rzeszów, S. Pigonia 1, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland |
| Received: April 19, 2015; In final form: November 16, 2015 |
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| SEM observation of non-typical macrodefects in the form of needle-like second phase particles in highly doped CdTe:Cr single crystals, grown by the modified physical vapour transport method, was reported. They form regular network parallel to the {111} and {100} planes. In the combined analyses using energy dispersive X-ray profiling and high-angle annular dark-field elemental mapping, it has been determined that the observed needle-like aggregates are composed of Cr-Te intermetallic compound, most probably cadmium doped Cr3Te4. |
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.129.49 PACS numbers: 61.50.-f, 61.72.-y, 61.72.Vv |