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CdTe epilayers are grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) on bulk HgCdTe crystals with x ~ 0.22 grown by the traveling heater method (THM). The THM HgCdTe substrates are (111) oriented and the CdTe is grown on the Te face. The metalorganic sources are DMCd and DETe, and the growth is performed at subatmospheric pressure. Ultraviolet (UV) photon-assisted hydrogen radicals pretreatment plays a dominant role in the electrical properties of the resulting heterostructures. The requirements of a good passivation for HgCdTe photodiodes vis-a-vis the passivation features of CdTe/HgCdTe heterostructures are discussed. The effect of valence band offset and interface charges on the band diagrams of p-isotype CdTe/HgCdTe heterostructures, for typical doping levels of the bulk HgCdTe substrates and the MOCVD grown CdTe, is presented. Electrical properties of the CdTe/HgCdTe passivation are determined by capacitance-voltage and current-voltage characteristics of metal-insulator-semiconductor test devices, where the MOCVD CdTe is the insulator. It is found that the HgCdTe surface is strongly inverted and the interface charge density is of the order of 1012cm2 when the CdTe epilayer is grown without the UV pretreatment. With the in-situ UV photon-assisted hydrogen radicals pretreatment, the HgCdTe surface is accumulated and the interface charge density is -4. 1011 cm-2.
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Nemirovsky, Y., Amir, N. & Djaloshinski, L. Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition CdTe passivation of HgCdTe. J. Electron. Mater. 24, 647–654 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02657974
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