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Hydrogen Passivation of Shallow Dopants in Indium Doped Bulk CdTe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Suma Gurumurthy
Affiliation:
Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India
A. K. Sreedhar
Affiliation:
Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India
H. L. Bhat
Affiliation:
Department of Physics Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India
B. Sundersheshu
Affiliation:
Solid State Physics Laboratory, Lucknow road, Delhi-110 054, India
R. K. Bagai
Affiliation:
Solid State Physics Laboratory, Lucknow road, Delhi-110 054, India
Vikram Kumar
Affiliation:
Solid State Physics Laboratory, Lucknow road, Delhi-110 054, India
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Abstract

Hydrogen passivation effects in In doped n-CdTe upon exposure to rf hydrogen plasma have been studied by electrical and photoluminescence measurements. Shallow dopant passivation of approximately an order of magnitude at 150°C and 50% at 170°C is observed. No visual damage is seen. Reverse bias annealing effects are also studied. Results are discussed.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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