Tracking the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Growth Impurities in $\text{Cd}_{0.9} \text{Zn}_{0.1} \text{Te}$ Single Crystal
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Abstract
CdZnTe (CZT) crystals have been the subject of extensive studies toward high-performance room temperature X-ray detectors. Despite decades of research, the atomic-level understanding of growth impurities in these materials remains conspicuously missing in literature despite its importance to elucidate the growth imperfections and their role in shaping the material behavior. Herein, this works combines Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Atom Probe Tomography (APT) to achieve the full atomic-scale analysis of the inclusions typically found in CZT crystals. The inclusions consist of Te single crystals containing CZT nanoscale crystalline precipitates. These precipitates reach tens of nanometers in diameter and contain <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$\text{Cu}, \text{In}$</tex>, and Na impurities. Cu and In are found to decorate the surface of the precipitates. This atomic scale analysis gives unique insights into the three-dimensional distribution of growth impurities, which is highly valuable to understand the mechanisms underlying the crystallization process. These insights are also critical to model the basic properties of CZT semiconductors.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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