TOPICS
The scope of the Workshop includes the basic physics and chemistry of all II-VI based materials and their applications. Materials of interest include HgCdTe, ZnSe, ZnO and CdTe. Issues in the following critical areas are of interest:
 Emerging Detector Technologies
- Multiband Detector Development
- Near-Room-Temperature IR Devices
- HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiodes
ZnO Materials and Devices
Two-Color Detector Technologies
Materials Growth and Device Engineering
- Control of composition, carrier concentration, and lifetime
- Novel material and device structures
- Modeling of growth and processing
- Equilibrium and non-equilibrium growth
Substrates: CdZnTe and Silicon-Based Alternatives
Defects and Doping
- Physics of Failure
- Effect on electrical and optical properties
- Thermodynamics
- P-doping issues
- Impurities
- Diffusion
- Activation and segregation
Surfaces and Interfaces
- Etching, passivation, and metallization
Modeling and Simulation
- Material properties
- Growth and processing
- Device physics
Characterization of Materials
- Electrical, optical, and microstructural characterization
- Defects and impurities
- Contactless and other non-destructive methods
- Device-material correlations
Radiation Detectors
Radiation Effects in HgCdTe
II-VI-Based Solar Cells
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