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Photoconductivity of coarse-grained CdTe polycrystals

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The photoconductivity spectra of textured coarse-grained CdTe polycrystals grown by low-temperature synthesis from deeply purified components are investigated. It is shown that photoconductivity is controlled by complexes of extended defects with segregated impurities.

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  1. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. A. Medvedev, Yu. V. Klevkov, S. A. Kolosov, V. S. Krivobok & A. F. Plotnikov

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Translated from Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, Vol. 36, No. 8, 2002, pp. 937–940.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2002 by Medvedev, Klevkov, Kolosov, Krivobok, Plotnikov.

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Medvedev, S.A., Klevkov, Y.V., Kolosov, S.A. et al. Photoconductivity of coarse-grained CdTe polycrystals. Semiconductors 36, 874–877 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1500463

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