Calculated temperature dependence of the band gap of HgTe-CdTe superlattices
- 15 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 57 (4), 1403-1405
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.334497
Abstract
We present calculations of the band gap and of the corresponding cutoff wavelength of HgTe-CdTe superlattices. These calculations are done for different temperatures as a function of the thickness of the layers, showing in particular that interesting cutoff wavelengths for infrared detectors (∼10 μm) can be obtained with reasonable thickness between 4 and 300 K.Keywords
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