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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
John H Tregilgas, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C30B / ; C30B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1566202 ; 156D / ; 156D / ; 156D / ;
Abstract
A three step annealing treatment for Hg.sub.1-x Cd.sub.x Te includes a high temperature anneal to reduce excess tellurium, followed by an intermediate temperature anneal to reduce the supersaturation of metal vacancies, and lastly a low temperature anneal to reduce metal vacancies; see FIG. 4. The intermediate anneal reduces the metal vacancy concentration sufficiently that microvoids do not form from condensation of metal vacancies in desired portions of the Hg.sub.1-x Cd.sub.x Te during the low temperature anneal. Alternate preferred embodiments include more than three steps and incremental cooling.