PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY OF CDS EXCITED BY QUENCHING INFRARED RADIATION.

Abstract

Some CdS photoconductive single crystals, with high dark resistivity were irradiated at room temperature with 6.900A and 9.000A both simultaneously and successively. It was found that post-irradiation by 9.000A generates a photo current which lasts about five seconds although this infrared radiation quenches the photocurrent during simultaneous irradiation. It is suggested that infrared photoconductivity is connected with the transition of electrons to the conduction band, from deep acceptor levels. A model is proposed for the interpretation of several experimental results. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1964
Accession Number
AD0603491

Entities

People

  • Andre Luyckx
  • Jean-pierre Michenaud

Organizations

  • UCLouvain

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Conduction Bands
  • Corpuscular Radiation
  • Crystals
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Energy Bands
  • Fermions
  • Infrared Radiation
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Nuclear Radiation
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Photoconductivity
  • Quenching
  • Radiation
  • Single Crystals

Readers

  • Materials Science and Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics