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Spontaneous polarization, thermally stimulated conductivity and depolarization are comprehensively studied in the range from 4.2 to 300 K on nonstoichiometric n-type CdS crystals grown from the gas phase in an argon atmosphere at T = 1450 K. The objects of study are initial samples and samples polarized by a weak electric field at T = 4.2 K. Sample polarization results in a decrease in the conductivity σ33 due to restructurization of the entire energy level spectrum associated with the formation of donor-acceptor pairs. The latter processes also contribute to the temperature dependences of the spontaneous polarization and the pyroelectric effect, characterized by the formation of anomalies below 15 K and the formation of thermoelectret. The role of an uncontrollable oxygen impurity in the formation of CdS cationic conductivity above 270 K, associated with the decay of a fraction of donor-acceptor pairs, is discussed. In the temperature range from 20 to 250 K, the pyroelectric coefficient and spontaneous polarization are independent of external influences within experimental error; at T = 200 K, they are ΔP s = −(6.1 ± 0.2) × 10−4 C/m2 and γ s = −(4.1 ± 0.3) × 10−5 C/m2 K.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.V. Shaldin, S. Matyjasik, 2014, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2014, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 582–589.
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Shaldin, Y.V., Matyjasik, S. Pyroelectric properties of the wide-gap semiconductor CdS in the low-temperature region. Semiconductors 48, 562–569 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782614050194
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