Growth and characterization of CdMnTe and CdZnTe polycrystalline thin films for solar cells

NiP:Mn as a potential magnetic contacting material to Cd1−xMnxTe

“…By applying a magnetic field below its transition temperature, many interesting magnetic, optical and magneto-optical properties have been observed for Cd 1Àx Mn x Te and these have been widely investigated [2][3][4]. The material has been identified as a candidate for many practical applications, such as magnetic field sensors, solar cells, optical isolators and lasers [5][6][7][8]. It has also been found that Cd 1Àx Mn x Te is a good candidate to compete with Cd 1Àx Zn x Te in X-ray and g-ray nuclear detector applications [9,10].…”

Toward Development of CdZnTe and CdMnTe Thin Film‐Based Solar Cells: Optimized Properties and a Comparative Performance Exploration

“…These character-istics make them promising and modest contenders for PV applications in place of standard CdTe in order to avoid and reduce the issues mentioned above. [2,5,13] CZT and CMT thin films can be deposited by some physical and chemical growth techniques, close-spaced sublimation, [14,15] molecular beam epitaxy, [16] radio frequency magnetron sputtering, [17] vacuum evaporation, [2,5,13] metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, [12] vertical Bridgman method, [18] Traveling Heater method, [19] etc. We used vacuum evaporation to prepare CZT and CMT thin films and solar cells in this study because it provides significant benefits such as controllable growth/deposition rate, lower material expenditure, a high order of reproducibility, and so on.…”

“…The optical bandgaps of CZT and CMT can be custom‐made within the range of 1.45–2.26 eV and 1.45–2.85 eV, respectively, making them very promising for PV applications. [ 12 ] In contrast to CMT, which has an appropriate segregation coefficient for manganese (Mn), high resistivity, a wide bandgap, a high free carrier mobility‐lifetime product, and excellent electronic‐transport properties, CZT material has a tunable bandgap energy, stability, and nearly unity segregation coefficient of zinc. These characteristics make them promising and modest contenders for PV applications in place of standard CdTe in order to avoid and reduce the issues mentioned above.…”

RBS spectrometric studies on the interdiffusion profile of multilayer thin film structure to yield Cd1−xMnxTe alloy

“…Without external magnetic fields this DMS behave in a way similar to normal ternary semiconductors. In the presence of a magnetic field, many interesting magnetic, optical and magneto-optical properties have been observed and widely investigated [3,4], rendering the material as a candidate for many practical applications, such as magnetic field sensors, solar cells, optical isolators and lasers [5][6][7][8]. Recently, increased attention has been paid to Cd 1−x Mn x Te because it is revealed that the material is a good candidate to compete with Cd 1−x Zn x Te in X-ray and ␥-ray nuclear detector applications [9,10].…”