About cookies on this site Our websites require some cookies to function properly (required). In addition, other cookies may be used with your consent to analyze site usage, improve the user experience and for advertising. For more information, please review your options. By visiting our website, you agree to our processing of information as described in IBM’sprivacy statement. To provide a smooth navigation, your cookie preferences will be shared across the IBM web domains listed here.
Publication
Physical Review
Paper
Self-compensation-limited conductivity in binary semiconductors. IV. n-ZnxCd1-xTe
Abstract
The electrical conductivity of heavily Al-doped ZnxCd1-xTe has been studied. The sharp transition expected from theory in the conductivity as a function of x is confirmed at a value of x=0.69. Above this value only high-resistivity material is obtainable which becomes high-resistivity p type for x above 0.75. The fact that the transition from low to high resistivity as a function of x is not nearly so sharp as expected from the theory is attributed to the spread in vacancy sizes and hence energy levels of the compensating vacancies that one expects in such an alloy system; pairing effects may also play a role. © 1965 The American Physical Society.