Type conversion in Cd <sub>x</sub> Hg <sub>1-x</sub> Te by ion beam treatment

M.V. Blackman, D.E. Charlton, Matthew Jenner, D.R. Purdy, J.T.M. Wotherspoon, C.T. Elliott, A. M. White

Electronics Letters · 1987 · 63 citations · 0 references

Abstract

Conversion of vacancy-doped p-type cadmium mercury telluride to n-type by rapid diffusion of mercury interstitials created during ion bombardment is rate-limited by the dose and requires neither donor ions nor postannealing.