Surface study of thioacetamide and zinc sulfide passivated long wavelength infrared type-II strained layer superlattice

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8012, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Banerjee, Koushik ^a   Huang, Jun ^a   Ghosh, Siddhartha ^a   Xu, Runshen ^b   Takoudis, Christos G ^b   Plis, Elena ^c   Krishna, Sanjay ^c   Ketharanathan, Sutharsan ^d   Chriss, Matthew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d EPIR TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Long wavelength infrared; Passivation; Strained layer superlattice; Thioacetamide; Zinc sulfide

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC SOLUTIONS; AIR EXPOSURE; AMMONIUM SULFIDE; BOND FORMATION; CAPPING LAYER; DYNAMIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENT; LONG-WAVELENGTH INFRARED; SEMICONDUCTOR-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; STRAINED LAYER SUPERLATTICE; SULFIDIZATION; SULFIDIZING; SURFACE STUDY; THIOACETAMIDE; ZERO BIAS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; MONOLAYERS; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SUPERLATTICES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 80053008779     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.900198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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