HUANG Hui, XU Jing-jun, WANG Ji-you, ZHANG Cun-zhou, JI Rong-Bin, PAN Shun-chen, ZHANG Guang-yin. Photoluminescence ofHg<sub>1-x</sub>Cd<sub>x</sub>Te/Cd<sub>1-y</sub>Zn<sub>y</sub>Te Epitaxial Films Grown by MOCVD[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2002,23(2): 133-136
HUANG Hui, XU Jing-jun, WANG Ji-you, ZHANG Cun-zhou, JI Rong-Bin, PAN Shun-chen, ZHANG Guang-yin. Photoluminescence ofHg<sub>1-x</sub>Cd<sub>x</sub>Te/Cd<sub>1-y</sub>Zn<sub>y</sub>Te Epitaxial Films Grown by MOCVD[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2002,23(2): 133-136DOI:
Te make it an excellent candidate material for infrared photoelectric detectors. Recently
much attention has been paid to Hg
1-x
Cd
x
films grown by different epitaxial techniques on the substrate Cd
1-y
Zn
y
Te due to the possibility of fabricating large area detectors as well as high precision focal plane array detectors. Investigations of the phonon vibration spectra for Hg
1-x
Cd
x
are necessary to understand the lattice dynamics and to obtain structure information about the material. In this paper
the micro-Raman spectra of two MOCVD Hg
1-x
Cd
x
/Cd
1-y
Zn
y
Te epitaxial film samples were measured at room temperature within the spectral range of 50cm
-1
to 5000cm
-1
. The quasi-periodically micro-photoluminescent structure in the range from 50cm
-1
to 5000cm
-1
was observed for the first time in one sample. The micro-photoluminescence results show that there is an anion vacancy resonance level far up in the conduction band
about 1.73eV above the conduction band edge in Hg
1-x
Cd
x
/Cd
1-y
Zn
y
Te epitaxial film. In the micro-Raman spectrum of another sample four main Raman peaks at 125.3cm
-1
140.8cm
-1
164.8cm
-1
and 265.2cm
-1
were observed. The Raman peak of 125.3cm
-1
belongs to HgTe-like TO
1
phonon vibrational mode
140.8cm
-1
belongs to HgTe-like LO
1
phonon vibrational mode
164.8cm
-1
occurs due to CdTe-like LO
1
phonon vibration
and 265.2cm
-1
come from the two-phonon mode TO
1
(HgTe-like)+LO
1
(HgTe-like). At the same time
X-ray double-crystal rocking curves were also obtained in order to check the structure quality of two samples. Our results definitely show that the quasi-periodically micro-photoluminescent structure is mainly due to the improvement in quality of the Hg
1-x
Cd
x
Te epilayer. The experimental results also demonstrate that micro-photoluminescence technique in micro-Raman system seems to be a good convenient
simple
contactless method to characterize the perfection of Hg