Mercury zinc telluride (HgZnTe, MZT) is a telluride of mercury and zinc, an alloy of mercury telluride and zinc telluride. Tellurium (tɪˈlʊəriəm/ /tɛl- is a Chemical element that has the symbol Te and Atomic number 52 Mercury (ˈmɜrkjʊri also called quicksilver or hydrargyrum, is a Chemical element with the symbol Hg ( Latinized hydrargyrum Zinc (ˈzɪŋk from Zink is a Metallic Chemical element with the symbol Zn and Atomic number 30 Mercury telluride (HgTe is a binary chemical compound of mercury and Tellurium. Zinc telluride is the Chemical compound with the formula ZnTe It is a narrow-gap semiconductor material. Narrow gap semiconductors are Semiconducting materials with a Band gap that is comparatively small compared to Silicon. A semiconductor' is a Solid material that has Electrical conductivity in between a conductor and an insulator; it can vary over that
Mercury zinc telluride is used in infrared detectors and arrays for infrared imaging and infrared astronomy. An infrared detector is a Photodetector that reacts to Infrared (IR Radiation. A thermographic camera, sometimes called a FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed or an infrared camera less specifically is a device that forms an image using Infrared Infrared astronomy is the branch of Astronomy and Astrophysics which deals with objects visible in Infrared (IR radiation
Mercury zinc telluride has better chemical, thermal, and mechanical stability than mercury cadmium telluride. HgCdTe or mercury Cadmium Telluride (also cadmium mercury telluride, MCT or CMT) is an Alloy of The bandgap of MZT is more sensitive to composition fluctuations than that of MCT, which may be an issue for reproducible device fabrication. MZT is less amenable than MCT to fabrication of complex heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy. Molecular beam Epitaxy (MBE, is one of several methods of depositing Single crystals It was invented in the late 1960s at Bell Telephone Laboratories
Similar materials are cadmium zinc telluride and mercury cadmium telluride. Cadmium zinc telluride, (CdZnTe or CZT, is (as the name indicates a compound of Cadmium, Zinc and Tellurium or more strictly speaking an alloy HgCdTe or mercury Cadmium Telluride (also cadmium mercury telluride, MCT or CMT) is an Alloy of
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