Intrinsic carrier concentrations in Hg1−xCdxTe with the use of Fermi–Dirac statistics

Abstract
The intrinsic carrier concentrations in Hg1−xCdxTe are calculated with the use of the Fermi–Dirac statistics thus expanding on our previous calculation which employed the Boltzmann statistics. The use of Boltzmann statistics for Hg1−xCdxTe is limited to x≥0.20 and is not appropriate for the narrow band gap xx≥0.20 using both statistics are in excellent agreement. We also compare our results with those of Hansen and Schmit. Good agreement is found for the range of 0.15≤x≤0.40.

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