@inproceedings{fecaf0211aef481593def5431a49c17b,
title = "Effects of thermal annealing on the structural properties of CdZnTe crystals",
abstract = "Although cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) is one of leading materials for fabricating room-temperature nuclear-radiation- detectors, different defects in the crystals can degrade the performance of CZT detectors. Post-growth thermal annealing potentially offers a satisfactory way to eliminate the deleterious influence of these defects. Here, we report that the annealing of CZT in Cd vapor effectively lowers the density of Te inclusions. It takes a much longer annealing time to eliminate separate large Te inclusions than small ones; however, the annealing time is greatly reduced when the large Te inclusions are distributed along grain boundaries. We found that sub-grain boundaries still exist after the annealing at 500°C, indicating that a higher annealing temperature might be needed.",
keywords = "CZT, Te inclusions, annealing, radiation detection, sub-grain boundaries",
author = "G. Yang and Bolotnikov, \{A. E.\} and Fochuk, \{P. M.\} and Y. Cui and Camarda, \{G. S.\} and A. Hossain and Kim, \{K. H.\} and J. Horace and B. McCall and R. Gul and Kopach, \{O. V.\} and Egarievwe, \{S. U.\} and James, \{R. B.\}",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1117/12.894961",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819487520",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XIII",
note = "Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XIII ; Conference date: 22-08-2011 Through 24-08-2011",
}