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A new indium precursor, triisopropyl indium (TIPIn), has been used for doping MCT at low carrier concentrations. Previous attempts using indium organometallics resulted in a strong memory effect where residual doping would persist for many growth runs. Introducing TIPIn on the tellurium inject line resulted in a similarly strong memory doping but this was not observed when feeding the dopant in on the cadmium injection line. The TIPIn is believed to have been forming a low volatility adduct with diisopropyl tellurium (DIPTe) in the feed line and to have continued to evaporate at a low but significant rate. By keeping the TIPIn and DIPTe precursors separate until they entered the reactor, the desired low 1015 cm−3 carrier concentration and flat indium profiles could be achieved with good reproducibility. Good electrical characteristics were measured for these layers with Auger limited lifetime >1 μs at 77K.
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Irvine, S.J.C., Bajaj, J., Bubulac, L.O. et al. A new N-type doping precursor for MOCVD-IMP growth of detector quality MCT. J. Electron. Mater. 22, 859–864 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02817498
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