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The Problem of Doping Wide Gap II-VI Compound Semiconductors and Its Solutions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

W. I. Wang*
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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Abstract

Wide gap II-VI compound semiconductors are difficult to be doped amphoterically. After more than thirty years of research in II-VI compound semiconductors, there does not even exist a satisfatory simultaneous explanation as to why ZnSe can be easily doped n-type while undoped ZnTe only exhibits p-type conductivity. In this paper we propose an explanation based on the III-V/II-VI analogy which for the first time can explain these phenomena, and provide solutions to the problem of doping II-VI compound semiconductors.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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