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, HgCdSe, ZnSe, ZnO, ZnS, CdTe, and CdZnTe. Issues in the following critical areas are of interest:

1. X-Ray & Gamma-Ray Radiation Detectors
2. Radiation Effects in HgCdTe
3. II-VI-Based Solar Cells
4. Materials Growth and Characterization
   • Control of composition, carrier concentration, and lifetime
   • Modeling of growth and processing
   • Equilibrium and non-equilibrium growth
5. 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
6. Surfaces and Interfaces
   • Etching, passivation, and metallization
7. Modeling and Simulation
   • Material properties
   • Growth and processing
   • Device physics
8. Characterization of Materials
   • Electrical, optical, and microstructural characterization
   • Defects and impurities
9. Surface Characterization
   • Contactless and other non-destructive methods
   • Device-material correlations
10. ZnO and ZnS Materials and Devices
11. Magnetic Semiconductors
12. 2D materials and Quantum Dots