Narrow gap HgCdTe absorption behavior near the band edge including nonparabolicity and the Urbach tail

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Chang, Yong ^a   Grein, Christoph H ^a   Sivananthan, Sivalingam ^a   Flatte, M E ^b   Nathan, V ^c   Guha, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; BAND GAP; NONPARABOLICITY; URBACH TAILS;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GRAPH THEORY; HEAT CONDUCTION; HOLE MOBILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33747137294     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2245220     Document Type: Article

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