General Topics
The scope of the Workshop includes the basic physics and chemistry of all II-VI materials and their applications. Materials of interest include HgCdTe, ZnSe, ZnO, CdTe, and CdZnTe. Issues in the following critical areas are of interest:
- Strained Layer Superlattices: III-V and II-VI
- Emerging Detector Technologies
- Multiband Detector Development
- Near-Room-Temperature IR Devices
- HgCdTe Avalanche Photodiodes
- ZnO Materials and Devices
- Materials Growth and Characterization
- Control of composition, carrier concentration, and lifetime
- Novel material and device structures
- Modeling of growth and processing
- Equilibrium and non-equilibrium growth
- Substrates for HgCdTe: CdZnTe and Alternatives
- Defects and Doping
- Physics of Failure
- Characterization, particularly non-destructive
- Effect on electrical and optical properties
- Thermodynamics
- P-doping issues in HgCdTe
- Impurities
- Diffusion
- Activation and segregation
- Dislocations: generation mechanisms, properties, kinetics, characterization, mitigation
- 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
- X-Ray & Gamma-Ray Radiation Detectors
- Radiation Effects in HgCdTe
- II-VI-Based Solar Cells