CdZnTe Bulk Crystal Growth and Temperature Modeling Studies at METU-CGL

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2018-08-21

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Balbaşı, Özden Başar
DOĞRU, ÇİĞDEM
Kabukcuoglu, Merve
Ünal, Mustafa
Parlak, Mehmet
Turan, Raşit

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Cadmium Zinc Telluride (Cd1-xZnxTe) has become a crucial material for X-ray and gamma ray detection due to its wide band-gap, high atomic number and high density, which offer high efficiency and sharp spectroscopic resolution at room temperature. In addition, due to being lattice matched, it can also be used as substrate for the epitaxial growth of HgCdTe that can be used for infrared detection with high resolution. Hence, increasing the single crystal yield of CdZnTe from the grown ingot gained importance for the development of such detectors. In this study, a combination of modeling and experimental approaches has been developed in order to obtain high quality CdZnTe bulk crystals with good single crystal yield. A multi-zone Vertical Gradient Freeze (VGF) furnace was used for CdZnTe growth experiments. A global temperature model of the multi-zone furnace including complete geometry was employed using CrysMAS crystal growth modeling software. The correlation studies between the model and experimental behavior of the furnace are discussed in order to create a reliable model for temperature predictions. Temperature models were also included solid-liquid interface study in order to observe the interface shape at various stages of growth which would provide valuable insight about the quality and the yield of the ingot. Growth parameters and crucible geometries were estimated by CrysMAS simulations and interchanged between experiments. Effectiveness of temperature models and simulations was supported by experimental results such as single-crystalline yield, grain evolution and crystalline quality comparison by DCRC measurements of five successful crystal growths with moderate single crystal grain sizes.

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CdZnTe, Temperature modeling, Bulk crystal growth, Vertical gradient freeze method, CrysMAS

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40894

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2323409

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Ö. B. Balbaşı, Ç. DOĞRU, M. Kabukcuoglu, M. Ünal, M. Parlak, and R. Turan, “CdZnTe Bulk Crystal Growth and Temperature Modeling Studies at METU-CGL,” 2018, vol. 10762, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40894.