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A comparative study of wet etchants for both molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) grown n- and p-type samples was performed using capacitance–voltage (C–V) characteristics and surface recombination velocity (SRV) extracted from photoconductive decay (PCD) measurements. Different wet etchants were divided in two categories, (i) where bromine is a direct reagent in the etching solution and (ii) where bromine is a byproduct after reaction among different reagents. Negative shift of the flat-band voltages were observed for both n- and p-type samples treated with second category of etchants. A decrease in minority carrier lifetimes and an increase in the surface recombination velocities were also observed for the n-type samples treated with second category of etchants.
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This work is funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under contract FA9550-06-C-0007 monitored by Dr. Donald Silversmith. We would like to thank BAE Systems and Fiqri Aqaridan from DRS Technologies for providing us some of the samples for this study.
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Mallick, S., Kiran, R., Ghosh, S. et al. Comparative Study of HgCdTe Etchants: An Electrical Characterization. J. Electron. Mater. 36, 993–999 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-007-0159-8
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