Photocurrent Study on the Splitting of the Valence Band and Growth of $CdIn_2Te_4$ Single Crystal by Bridgman method

Bridgman법에 의해 성장된 $CdIn_2Te_4$ 단결정의 가전자 갈라짐에 대한 광전류 연구

A p-$CdIn_2Te_4$ single crystal has been grown by the Bridgman method without a seed crystal in a tree-stage vertical electric furnace. From photocurrent measurements, it was found that three peaks, A, B, and C, corresponded to an intrinsic transition due to the band-to-band transition from the valence band states ${\Gamma}_7(A),\;{\Gamma}_6(B),\;and\;{\Gamma}_7(C)$ to the conduction band state ${\Gamma}_6$, respectively. Also, the valence band splitting of the $CdIn_2Te_4$ crystal has been confirmed by photocurrent spectroscopy. The crystal field splitting and the spin orbit splitting were obtained to be 0.2360 and 0.1119 eV, respectively. Also, the temperature dependence of the band gap energy of the $CdIn_2Te_4$ crystal has been driven as the following equation of $E_g(T)\;=E_g(0)\;-\;(9.43\;{\times}\;10^{-3})T^2/(2676\;+\;T)$. In this equation, the Eg(0) was estimated to be 1.4750, 1.7110, and 1.8229 eV at the valence band state A, B, and C, respectively. The band gap energy of the p-$CdIn_2Te_4$ at room temperature was determined to be 1.2023 eV.