Heavy metal doping of CdTe crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6 I, 2004, Pages 3105-3110

  Saucedo, E ^a,b   Fornaro, L ^a   Sochinskii, N V ^c   Cuna A ^a   Corregidor, V ^b   Granados, D ^c   Dieguez E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DOPING (ADDITIVES); ETCHING; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; RADIATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DARK CURRENT; DOPANTS; MASS SPECTROSCOPY; TRAVELING HEATER METHOD;

HEAVY METALS;

EID: 11044224128     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.839076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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