Mercury zinc telluride

Mercury zinc telluride (HgZnTe, MZT) is a telluride of mercury and zinc, an alloy of mercury telluride and zinc telluride. It is a narrow-gap semiconductor material.

Mercury zinc telluride is used in infrared detectors and arrays for infrared imaging and infrared astronomy.

Mercury zinc telluride has better chemical, thermal, and mechanical stability than mercury cadmium telluride. 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.

Similar materials are cadmium zinc telluride and mercury cadmium telluride.

External links

National Pollutant Inventory - Mercury and compounds Fact Sheet

Mercury compounds

Mercury(I)

Mercury(II)

Organomercury compounds	Hg(CH₃)₂ Hg(C₂H₅)₂ Hg(C₆H₅)₂ HgC₆H₅CH₃CO₂ HgC₆H₅OB(OH)₂ HgClC₆H₄CO₂H HgOHCH₂CHOCH₃CH₂(NHCO)₂C₂H₄CO₂H HgOHCH₂CHOCH₃CH₂NHCOC₆H₄OCH₂CO₂H Na₂HgOHC₆HOBrC₆H₂OBrOCHC₆H₄CO₂ HgOC₆H₂CH₃NO₂ NaHgC₂H₅SC₆H₄CO₂

Mercury(IV)

HgF₄ (hypothetical)

Amalgams

Mercury cations

Zinc compounds

Zinc(I)

Organozinc(I) compounds	Zn₂(C₅(CH₃)₅)₂

Zinc(II)

Organozinc(II) compounds	Zn(CH₃)₂ Zn(C₂H₅)₂ Zn(CH(CH₃)₂)₂ Zn(C(CH₃)₃)₂ Zn(C₆H₅)₂ ZnCIH₂I

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