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Coulometric determination of arsenic in gallium arsenide crystal wafers

Coulometric determination of arsenic in gallium arsenide crystal wafers The determination of small variations in the stoichiometry of undoped, semi-insulating gallium arsenide can be achieved by using constant current coulometry. Samples taken from a wafer are etched in HF, dissolved in NaOH-peroxide solution, then treated with a citric acid buffer. [...]

Gas filled prototype of a CdZnTe pixel detector

Gas filled prototype of a CdZnTe pixel detector   CdZnTe pixel structures are currently the most promising detectors for the focal planes of hard X-ray telescopes, for astronomical observation in the range 5–100 keV. In Sharma et al. (Proc. SPIE 3765 (1999) 822) and Ramsey et al. (Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 458 [...]

Experimental and theoretical investigation of phosphorus in-situ doping of germanium epitaxial layers

Experimental and theoretical investigation of phosphorus in-situ doping of germanium epitaxial layers We investigate phosphorus in-situ doping characteristics in germanium (Ge) during epitaxial growth by spreading resistance profiling analysis. In addition, we present an accurate model for the kinetics of the diffusion in the in-situ process, modeling combined growth and [...]

Growth of CdZnTe crystals by the traveling heater method

Effects of mosaic structure on the physical properties of CdZnTe crystals   Mosaic structure in CdZnTe crystals was identified by using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), then the effects of mosaic structure on the physical properties were studied by means of high resolution X-ray diffraction (HRXRD), I–V characterization, and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) measurements. [...]

Fabrication of ZnO nanorod/p-GaN high-brightness UV LED by microwave-assisted chemical bath deposition with Zn(OH)2–PVA nanocomposites as seed layer

Chemical solution deposition is a low-temperature and possibly the lowest-cost method of growing ZnO nanorods on a GaN substrate. However, most reported methods leave an interface layer between the grown ZnO nanorods and substrate, which can interfere with light emission and extraction. Here we report the growth of high-quality, [...]

Photoluminescent electrospun polymeric nanofibers incorporating germanium nanocrystals

The photoluminescent germanium nanocrystals (Ge-NCs) were successfully incorporated into electrospun polymeric nanofiber matrix in order to develop photoluminescent nanofibrous composite web. In the first step, the synthesis of Ge-NCs was achieved by nanosecond pulsed laser ablation of bulk germanium wafer immersed in organic liquid. The size, the structural and the chemical [...]